Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute
The Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute e. V. (FPI) is dedicated to the training, research and psychotherapy of the psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud .
history
The first Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute existed from 1929 to 1933. After the first German meeting for psychoanalysis in 1924 in Würzburg, the Southwest German Working Group was founded in 1926 with its seat in Frankfurt am Main . From this the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute emerged in 1929 and was headed by Karl Landauer and Heinrich Meng . In collaboration with Max Horkheimer's Institute for Social Research , it experienced a brief scientific heyday. The permanent employees included Frieda Fromm-Reichmann , Erich Fromm and Sigmund Heinrich Fuchs , who called himself SH Foulkes after his emigration and who became known in London as a promoter of group analysis. Immediately after the seizure of power in 1933, the National Socialists closed the institute. All five analysts were forced to emigrate. Karl Landauer was able to flee to Sweden, but then settled in the Netherlands, where he worked as a training analyst until his arrest. He was banned from working in 1942 , was arrested in 1943, was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944 , where he died in 1945 of the consequences of his imprisonment in the camp.
In 1956, Horkheimer, Adorno and Mitscherlich organized a series of lectures in Frankfurt for Sigmund Freud's 100th birthday . In 1960 the Institute and Training Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychosomatic Medicine was opened in Frankfurt under the direction of Alexander Mitscherlich and renamed the Sigmund Freud Institute in 1964 .
The new Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute was founded in 1995 after the dual function of the Sigmund Freud Institute (SFI) as a training and research facility had been dissolved. While the research remained in the SFI, Frankfurt analysts took over the psychoanalytic training in the FPI. With the use of the old institute name the memory of the persecution of the analysts by the National Socialists is to be kept alive.
See also
literature
- Tomas Plänkers , Michael Laier, Hans-Heinrich Otto (eds.): Psychoanalysis in Frankfurt am Main. Destroyed beginnings. Regrowth. Developments . Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1996.