Fred singing iron

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Fred Singeisen (born January 9, 1909 , † November 11, 1982 ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Fred Singeisen was the son of the widowed Lenko Albert, who married the psychiatrist Walter Morgenthaler in 1912 . He studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1935 at the University of Bern under Walter Frey , the director of the Medical University Clinic. With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation , he did research with Hugo Spatz at the Anatomical Laboratory of the Psychiatric and Nervous Clinic in Munich .

Singeisen headed the Psychiatric University Policlinic Basel from 1942 to 1945 . From 1946 to 1951 he was director of the Waldhaus psychiatric clinic in Chur. From 1951 to 1974 he was director of the Wil Psychiatric Clinic . Singeisen has taken depth psychological approaches into clinical work, improved staff training and promoted social psychiatry . Forced sterilizations were carried out on the basis of his assessment . Singeisen was active in the Psychoanalytic Seminar Zurich and in the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis .

Fonts

  • Experimental studies on the capillarization of the heart muscle in diphtheria and the influence of calcium. 1935 (dissertation, University of Bern).
  • About the syphilitic callus formation of the soft skins on the back circumference of the spinal cord. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases . Vol. 106, H. 1 (December 1, 1937), pp. 106-140, doi: 10.1007 / BF01987701 .
  • On the question of the central re-tuning of the visual acuity of peripheral retinal areas. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . Vol. 41 (1938), H. 1, pp. 193-199.
  • Rorschach findings in chronic pulmonary tuberculous and cardiac patients. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . 45: 200-247 (1940)
  • with Hans Kayser: Possibilities and tasks of modern psychiatry. In: Practical Psychiatry. Vol. 42 (1963), No. 4.
  • Analysis of a compulsive character. In: Psyche . Vol. 10, H. 5 (August 1956), pp. 277-293.
  • Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis. In: Practical Psychiatry. Vol. 35 (1956), H. 7, pp. 122-127.
  • Guilt and sanity. In: Practical Psychiatry. No. 10/11.
  • Participation: Walter Morgenthaler : The care of the mentally and mentally ill. 7th, increased and improved edition. Huber, Bern 1962.
  • Report on the current situation at the Psychoanalytic Seminar Zurich to the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis. 1976, printed in: The Psychoanalytic Seminar Zurich (= Lucifer-Amor. Vol. 6, Issue 12). Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felicitas Hitz: The neurologist Mieczyslaw Minkowski, 1884-1972 (= Zurich medical history treatises. New series No. 227). Juris, Zurich 1991, p. 117.
  2. ↑ Heinz Balmer : From the history of the Morgenthaler family. In: Yearbook of the Oberaargau. Vol. 15 (1972), pp. 37-93, here p. 56.
  3. ^ History of the Psychiatric University Policlinic Basel , website 550 years University of Basel, accessed on October 1, 2013.
  4. ↑ Ursula Jecklin et al. (Ed.): Women body: Contributions to the women's and gender history of Graubünden in the 19th and 20th centuries. NZZ, Zurich 2005, p. 233.
  5. ↑ Felicitas Hitz: The neurologist Mieczyslaw Minkowski, 1884-1972 (= Zurich medical history treatises. New series No. 227). Juris, Zurich 1991, p. 124.
  6. ↑ Forced sterilization: Switzerland refuses to make amends. In: Observer . 3/2011 (February 3, 2011), accessed October 1, 2013.
  7. ↑ Thomas Kurz: Rise and Fall of the Psychoanalytic Seminar Zurich from the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis (PDF; 275 kB). In: The Psychoanalytical Seminar Zurich (= Lucifer-Amor. Vol. 6, Issue 12). Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1993, pp. 7-54.
personal data
SURNAME Singing iron, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1909
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1982