Eugène Minkowski

Eugène Minkowski (born April 17, 1885 in Saint Petersburg , † November 17, 1972 in Paris ) was a Russian - French psychiatrist and philosopher.

Life

Eugène Minkowski was born to Jewish parents in Saint Petersburg. He went to school in Warsaw and then studied medicine at the University of Munich . As a student, he took part in the Russian Revolution in 1905 . He came into contact with psychiatry through his wife Françoise Minkowska . During the First World War he volunteered for the French army and fought in Verdun , the Somme and the Aisne . During the Second World War he was involved a. a. in the children's aid organization Œuvre de secours aux enfants . After the war he settled in Paris as a psychiatrist. During the Second World War he was persecuted as a Jew and survived illegally. On behalf of the United Restitution Organization , he prepared psychiatric reports on requests for reparation from persecuted Jews.

Minkowski's contributions to theoretical research into schizophrenia are particularly important . At first he was mainly influenced by the philosophers Henri Bergson and Max Scheler and the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler . He tried to bring together philosophical and clinical knowledge. He also increasingly integrated phenomenological ideas into his work.

His grandson is the French conductor and opera director Marc Minkowski .

Fonts (selection)

• La schizophrenia . Payot, Paris 1927.
• Le Temps vécu, études phenoménologiques et psychopathologiques . Payot, Paris 1933. ( Review of the German translation by Otto Friedrich Bollnow )
• Vers une cosmologie (1936)
• Traité de psychopathologie (1966)

literature

• Élisabeth Roudinesco , Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Springer-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-211-83748-1 , p. 687.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Christian Pross: reparation: the guerrilla war against the victims . Frankfurt am Main: Athenäum 1988 ISBN 3-610-08502-9 , p. 243