Gion Condrau

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Gion Condrau (born January 9, 1919 in Disentis , Switzerland ; † November 21, 2006 in Zurich ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

Life

Condrau graduated 1937 Matura in Disentis. He then completed a medical degree in Bern and received his doctorate in 1944. He attended training courses in psychiatry in Zurich , Lisbon and Providence , USA , in neurology and neurosurgery in Zurich and Paris (La Salpetrière). He was an assistant doctor in internal medicine and rheumatology in Zurich and at the Aviation Medical Institute at the Dübendorf military airfield . Since 1953 he was a specialist in neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. At the same time, Condrau studied philosophy , psychology , sociology and curative education at the University of Zurich , graduating with a Dr. phil. hist. He completed special training in psychoanalysis in the USA, in Jungian analysis ( CG Jung ) in Zurich and in Daseinanalysis at the Institute for Medical Psychotherapy. He then worked with Medard Boss until 1990. From 1959 to 1968 he attended Martin Heidegger's seminars in Zollikon .

In 1945, Condrau led auxiliary columns of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and repatriated prisoners from Mauthausen concentration camp . In 1953/54 he was an officer in the International Peace Mission in Korea . He ended his military career as a colonel in the medical field.

In 1953, Condrau opened his own practice for neurology and psychiatry in Zurich. In 1964 he was at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich habilitation and Historical Philosophy and the same summer semester at the Faculty of the University of Freiburg . There he worked as a titular professorship from 1967 . He received teaching positions at the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Freiburg (Switzerland) and at the Philosophical Faculty in Zurich and at the Institute for Applied Psychology (IAP) in Zurich.

He was psychiatric consultant at the cantonal university women's clinic in Zurich and co-founder and honorary member of the Swiss Society for Psychosomatic Medicine (1963), the Swiss Society for Anthropology of Life Analysis (1970), the Institute for Life Analysis for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (1971) and its director until the end of March 2000. 1989 he was president of the International association for Daseinanalysis (IVDA) and during years a member of the Executive Council of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS).

For twelve years, Condrau was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) in Swiss politics: in 1966 he was a councilor in Herrliberg , from 1971 to 1975 a Zurich cantonal councilor and from 1975 to 1979 a national councilor .

Gion Condrau was the father of three children, two of whom also became existential analysts. The medical historian Flurin Condrau (* 1965) is his nephew.

Works (selection)

As an author:

  • Analytical psychotherapy . Hans Huber Verlag, Bern 1963.
  • Medard Boss Analysis of Existence and Its Significance in Psychiatry . Huber, Bern 1965.
  • Psychosomatics of gynecology . Huber, Bern 1969.
  • Medical psychology. Psychosomatic pathology and therapy . Kindler, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-463-02154-4 .
  • Fear and guilt as basic problems of psychotherapy. Philosophical considerations on basic questions of human existence . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M.1976, ISBN 3-518-06805-9 (reprint of the Bern 1962 edition).
  • Departure to freedom. Philosophical and political thoughts on current affairs . Benteli Verlag, Bern 1977, ISBN 3-7165-0131-X .
  • The Janus head of progress. Sociopolitical thoughts of a psychiatrist . Benteli Verlag, Bern 1977, ISBN 3-7165-0125-5 .
  • Body and life. Contributions to psychosomatics and psychotherapy . Benteli Verlag, Bern 1977, ISBN 3-7165-0132-8 (together with Alois Hicklin and Medard Boss).
  • Introduction to psychotherapy. History, schools, method, practice; a textbook . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1989, ISBN 3-596-42115-2 .
  • Man and his death. Certa moriendi condicio . Kreuz-Verlag, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-268-00109-2 .
  • Sigmund Freud and Martin Heidegger . Daseinsanalytische Neurosenlehre . Huber, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-456-82092-5 (continuation of “Daseinsanalyse”).
  • Our skin. Mirror of the soul, connection to the world . Kreuz-Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-268-00130-0 (together with Heinrich Schipperges ).
  • The broken heart. On the psychosomatics of cardiovascular diseases . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-596-11754-2 (together with Marlis Gassmann ).
  • Disentis / Mustér. Past and present . Local council, Disentis 1996, ISBN 3-9521081-0-3 .
  • Martin Heidegger's impact on psychotherapy . Edition Mosaic, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-901953-12-4 .
  • I am, I do not know who . Wolfbach-Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-9522831-5-0 .

As editor:

  • Psychology of culture . Beltz, Weinheim 1982.
  • Skin. Understand and heal holistically . Verlag Haug, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-7760-1557-8 .
  • The heart. Rhythm and cycle of life; new ways to holistic medicine . Walter-Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-530-30020-9 .
  • Human consciousness. Approaching a phenomenon . Walter-Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-530-40038-6 (together with Werner J. Meinhold).
  • Analysis of existence. Philosophical and anthropological foundations; the importance of language; Psychotherapy research from an analysis of existence . Edition Röll, Dettelbach 1998, ISBN 3-89754-135-1 .
  • Analysis of existence. Yearbook of phenomenological anthropology and psychotherapy . Editor "Daseinsanalyse", Vienna (here especially vol. 16 (2000))

literature

  • Alois Hicklin: The person between yesterday and tomorrow, persisting, changing? Gion Condrau on his 60th birthday; Notes on his life and time problems . Benteli, Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7165-0303-7 .
  • Hans Dieter Foerster: Condrau, Gion. In: Gerhard Stumm et al .: Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy. Springer, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-211-83818-X , pp. 92-94 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp Gut : Two and a half books in 20 years. In: Die Weltwoche . No. 38/2012, p. 22 f.
personal data
SURNAME Condrau, Gion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist, doctor and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Disentis
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2006
Place of death Zurich