Arnold Weber

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Arnold Weber (born November 27, 1894 in Bern ; † May 7, 1976 ibid) was a Swiss psychoanalyst and child psychiatrist .

Life

Weber was a senior physician at the Waldau Cantonal Psychiatric Clinic . Along with Jakob Lutz from Zurich, he is one of the first child psychiatrists in Switzerland. He set up the Neuhaus child psychiatric observation station in Bern, where he worked until 1961. Together with Hans Hegg , he founded the municipal educational counseling and the outpatient youth psychiatric service.

Weber was from 1938 private lecturer and from 1955 associate professor at the University of Bern , where he gave the first lectures on child psychiatry.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the action of short, intense muscle work on urinary discharge. Dissertation , University of Bern, 1928.
  • About nihilistic madness and depersonalization: From the psychiatric university clinic Waldau-Bern (= treatises from neurology, psychiatry, psychology and their border areas. H. 84). Karger, Basel 1938.

literature

  • Where Europe's child psychiatry was born: Beginnings and developments in the southern Jura region (Aargau, Solothurn, Bern, Freiburg, Neunenburg) (= Zürcher Medizeschichtliche Abhandlungen. No. 273). Juris Druck + Verlag, Dietikon 1997, ISBN 3-260-05415-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Volume 2, 10th Edition, Berlin, 1966, page 2617.
  2. ^ Arnold Weber (1894–1976). In the Swiss Archives for Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry . 121, pp. 131-133 (1977).
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychoanalyst and child psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1976
Place of death Bern