Boris Luban-Plozza

Boris Luban-Plozza (born June 29, 1923 in St. Gallen ; † December 24, 2002 in Ascona ) from Rossa GR , was a Swiss doctor, psychiatrist , psychosomatic specialist and social medicine specialist . He has significantly developed the Balint groups named after Michael Balint .

Life

Luban grew up in St. Gallen as the son of Russian parents and attended primary school in Grono . His father was a doctor in the Calanca Valley in southern Graubünden . After graduating from high school in Bellinzona, Boris studied medicine in Geneva , Basel and Bern from 1942 . In Bern he passed the state examination and received his doctorate and worked as an assistant. In 1954 he took over his father's country doctor's practice. He completed his habilitation in psychiatry in Rome in 1966 and then taught psychosomatic medicine in Milan , Heidelberg , Freiburg and California. He continued to run a country doctor's practice in the Calanca Valley and practiced at the San Rocco Clinic in Grono. He later took over the management of the Santa Croce Clinic in Orselina and had a practice in his home town of Locarno . At a time when medicine was becoming more and more specialized, he pleaded for holistic medicine, in which the patient is perceived as a whole person and also includes the relationship to the family and the doctor. He called it a therapeutic alliance . He was inspired by the psychoanalysts Erich Fromm and Michael Balint . From 1968 he was known for the Balint meetings, which the WHO called the Ascona model , from 1985 for his contributions to emotional learning in the Balint groups. In 1992 he founded an international foundation for psychosomatics and social medicine in Ascona in order to be able to spread his concerns.

Honors

• 1989 Albert Schweitzer Prize
• 16 honorary university doctorates

Works

• with Lothar Knaak: drugs. Education about the mental, emotional and physical dangers of addictive substances. Goldmann, 1971. ISBN 978-3-4420-9012-9
• with Lothar Knaak: The doctor as medicine - the therapeutic alliance with the patient. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne-Lövenich 1982. ISBN 978-3-7691-2316-6 (3rd revised edition with new subtitle: The therapeutic alliance with the patient. And with the collaboration of Hans H. Dickhaut. New edition with Kurt Laederach- Hofmann 2002. ISBN 978-3-7691-1186-6 )
• with Lothar Knaak: The holistic person. New ways of physical and mental relaxation. Goldmann, 1972 (new edition 1985. ISBN 978-3-4420-9001-3 )

literature

• Bridges to life. Memories: Boris Luban-Plozza. Compiled and commented on by a friend. Basel: Schwabe, 2001. ISBN 978-3-7965-155-7-6 .
• Kurt Laederach-Hofmann: Boris Luban-Plozza. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 15, 2009 , accessed January 19, 2020 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Boris Luban-Plozza in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Boris Luban-Plozza in the catalog of the German National Library
• Boris Luban-Plozza's writings on worldcat.org/identities/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boris Luban-Plozza’s curriculum vitae on so-called “soci.ch / soci / fuct /
2. ^ Andreas Mettenleiter : Personal reports, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 278.
3. ^ Ludger Lütkehaus: Relationship Medicine . On the death of Boris Luban-Plozza. NZZ, Zurich December 28, 2002
4. ↑ Dietrich Ritschl . Boris Luban-Plozza, June 29, 1923– December 24, 2002: Psychosomatics from the very beginning. In: Schweizerische Ärztezeitung , 2003, 84 (6): p. 262.