Fritz Meerwein

Fritz Meerwein (born December 22, 1922 in Basel , † April 4, 1989 in Heidelberg ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Fritz Meerwein, son of a civil servant, studied medicine at the Universities of Basel and Geneva and received his doctorate in Basel in 1949. He worked as an assistant doctor at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich and completed his training analysis with Gustav Bally . From 1955 he worked as a psychotherapist in his own practice and as a consultant doctor at the University Hospital Zurich . In 1965 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich and was appointed adjunct professor there in 1971 .

Meerwein was instrumental in spreading psychoanalysis in Zurich. He was interested in psychosomatics and, increasingly, psychological problems in connection with cancer. He was the initiator of the medical psychological service at the Department of Oncology at the University Hospital Zurich and is therefore considered a pioneer in psycho- oncology . Meerwein was president of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis and the Society for Medical Psychotherapy.

Fonts (selection)

• On the origin, content and form of banal poems by schizophrenics. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . Vol. 65 (1949), pp. 4-60 ( dissertation , University of Basel, 1949).
• Psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the psychiatric clinic. Karger, Basel 1965 ( habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1965).
• The basics of the medical interview: An introduction to psychoanalytic psychosomatics. Huber, Bern 1969; later: The medical interview: basics and applications ; last 4th edition 1998.
• (Ed.) Introduction to Psycho-Oncology. Huber, Bern 1981; last 5th edition 1998 (edited together with Walter Bräutigam ).

literature

• Rudolf Wehrli: Fritz Meerwein (1922–1989): psychoanalyst, teacher and researcher. Juris, Dietikon 1998, ISBN 3-260-05424-3 .

Web links

• Rudolf Wehrli: Meerwein, Fritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .