Benyamin Maoz

Benyamin Maoz (born October 31, 1929 in Kassel as Hans Bernhard Mosbacher ; † August 28, 2014 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

Life

Maoz came from a long-established Kassel family. After much repression and humiliation the Jewish family had to endure, they emigrated to Palestine in 1937, where he took the name Benyamin Maoz. After school and military service, he began to study medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , then moved to the University of Amsterdam , where he received his doctorate in 1959. med. completed.

From 1959 Maoz first worked as a general practitioner in Kibbutz Kfar Giladi , after which he specialized in psychiatry and from 1970 worked in various clinics. After further training in social psychiatry , he was in 1973 at the University of Leiden Dr. phil. PhD. From 1979 he was head of the psychiatric department of the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Scheva and professor of psychiatry at the local Ben Gurion University . He also worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University.

As a social psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Benyamin Maoz was a specialist in trauma and life crisis research, with a special focus on problems of cultural anthropology. He has been invited to visiting professorships in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands and the University of Marburg; In 1994 he took up the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel. He was Honorary President of the Israeli Balint Society and Vice President of the International Balint Federation.

Fonts (selection)

• The Perception of Menopause in Five Ethnic Groups in Israel . 1973 (dissertation, Leiden University, 1973).
• with Nancy Datan and Aaron Antonovsky : A Time to Reap. The Middle Age of Women of Five Israeli Subcultures . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London 1981.
• as edited by GJ Visser, JM Bensing, BPR Gersons and C. Margolis: Mental Health and Primary Care. Dutch-Israeli Experience . NIVEL, 1986.
• with Stanley Rabinowitz, Michael Herz and Hava Elkan Katz: Doctors and their Feelings. A Pharmacology of Medical Caring . Praeger, Westport 1992.
• with Gerda Elata-Alster : Some Basic Principles of Psychotherapy in the Light of the Philosophical Writings of Franz Rosenzweig . In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): The philosopher Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929). International Congress Kassel 1986 . 2 volumes. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 1988.
• with Gerda Elata-Alster: Paradise - History and Life Story - Messianic Time . In: Ursula Baumgardt, Ingrid Olbricht (Hrsg.): The search for paradise. Illusions, wishes, realities . Kösel, Munich 1989.
• with Gerda Elata-Alster: Some basic principles of psychotherapy in the light of the philosophical writings of Franz Rosenzweig . In: Fragments. Series of publications on psychoanalysis . Volume 29/30, 1989.
• with Gerda Elata-Alster: experience of trauma as a miracle. A psychotherapeutic perspective according to Franz Rosenzweig . In: Rolf Kühn , Hilarion Petzold (ed.): Psychotherapy and philosophy. Philosophy as Psychotherapy? Junfermann, Paderborn 1992.
• A psychosocial interpretation of mourning and mourning rituals from a Jewish perspective as well as from Kassel to Haifa . In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Visualizing the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures Kassel 1987–1998. Kassel University Press, Kassel 1997.
• with Gerda Elata-Alster and Natalia Skradol: Narcissism and Creativity. Triangulation in Franz Rosenzweig's Life and Work in the Wake of the “Gritli” letters . In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Franz Rosenzweig's “new thinking”. International Congress Kassel 2004 . 2 volumes. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 2006.

literature

• Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Hrsg.): Visualizing the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures, Kassel 1987–1998 (= Kassel semester books. Studia Cassellana series ). Kassel University Press, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2518-0 , p. 201 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Benyamin Maoz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary on the website of the University of Kassel