Franz Alexander

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Franz Gabriel Alexander (Hungarian Alexander Ferenc Gábor , born January 22, 1891 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died March 8, 1964 in Palm Springs , California ) was a psychoanalyst and doctor. He is considered a co-founder of psychosomatic medicine.

Life

Alexander began studying archeology in Budapest and moved to Göttingen to study medicine . In 1913 he received his doctorate. During the First World War he was drafted and worked in a bacteriological laboratory of the Austro-Hungarian Army. After the end of the war he was the first student at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute , where he became Hanns Sachs' assistant in 1921 (1881–1947). Alexander emigrated to the USA and in 1930 became the first professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Chicago , where he was director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis until 1956. From 1938 to 1956 he was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois . In 1956 he moved to the head of the psychiatric department at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and as a professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California there .

Alexander is referred to as the "father" of psychoanalytic psychosomatics and was a co-founder of psychoanalytic criminology . In 1950 he summarized seven psychosomatic illnesses, which were later referred to as Holy Seven . "Anorexia nervosa" was also one of the diseases examined by Franz Alexander.

He also developed Freudian psychoanalysis using the method of "vector analysis". He also intensified the introduction of brief analyzes.

Alexander Franz published numerous papers on the history of psychoanalysis.

Fonts (selection)

  • Psychosomatic medicine. Basics and areas of application 3rd unchanged edition
  • Irrational Forces of Our Time: A Study of the Unconscious in Politics and History . (Translated by Henry Bernhard ). Stuttgart: Klett, 1946. (Original title Our Age of unreason )
  • The criminal and his judges . A psychoanalytic insight into the world of paragraphs. Frankfurt a. M., 1971.
  • with Sheldon T. Selesnick: History of Psychiatry. A critical outline of the psychiatric Theory and Practice of d. Early history to the present. (Konstanz and) Zurich: Diana Verl., 1969.
  • Psychoanalytic Pioneers by Franz Alexander (Author), Samuel Eisenstein (Author), Martin Grotjahn (Editor), Transaction Publishers, US (April 1995), ISBN 1-56000-815-6 (10), ISBN 978-1-56000-815 -6 (13)

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Alexander: Psychosomatic medicine . Its principles and applications. Norton, New York 1950, 300 pages DNB-online
  2. ↑ a b c Ralf Bröer: Franz Alexander. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. , 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, p. 6, DOI: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Alexander, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander, Franz Gabriel; Alexander, Ferenc Gábor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1964
Place of death Palm Springs , California