Charlot Strasser

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Charlot Strasser (born May 11, 1884 in Bern , † February 4, 1950 in Zurich ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and writer .

Life

The son of anatomy professor Hans Strasser studied medicine in Bern , Berlin , Leipzig , Munich and Paris ( doctorate in 1912). After traveling through Russia , China , Japan and South America , he worked as a psychiatrist in Zurich from 1913. From 1935 to 1944 he was the medical director of the men's home at Weid in Rossau ( Mettmenstetten municipality ).

Together with Alfred Adler and Carl Furtmüller, Strasser published the “Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie” from 1914, and with his wife Vera Strasser wrote works that dealt critically with psychoanalysis. His literary work included expressionist novels that influenced the Zurich Dada scene .

Works (selection)

  • Seeing (1904)
  • Poems from a trip around the world and other songs Zurich, Rascher, ca.1909
  • Travel novels from Russia and Japan (1911)
  • The Plague Ship (1918)
  • Who helps? Two social novels , Frauenfeld / Leipzig (1918)
  • Thrown about the glare lantern (1933)
  • The brown plague (1933)
  • Quackery and jugglers exploit you. Cooperative bookstore, Zurich 1935

literature

  • Florian Gelzer: Charlot Strasser's key novel "Geschmeiß um die" Blendlaterne "" (1933). A psychiatrist treats the Zurich emigrant scene . In: literature for readers 3 (2005), pp. 197–215.
  • Thomas Huonker : Diagnosis: "Morally defective". Castration, sterilization and racial hygiene in the service of Swiss social policy and psychiatry 1890–1970 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-06003-6 . ( PDF digital version , 286 pages, 762 kB; digital version at Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

  1. The introduction to this book with the title "Economic hardship creates superstitions" was printed in the International Medical Bulletin , Prague, 2nd year (1935) issue 1 (January), pp. 5-8 digitized

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