Gustav Bally
Gustav Emil Albert Bally (born December 4, 1893 in Mannheim , † November 29, 1966 in Zurich ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .
Life
The son of the chemist Oscar Bally attended schools in Mannheim and Winterthur , where he joined the Vitodurania secondary school association . After completing his federal Matura at the Minerva Institute , he studied medicine at the Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg from 1914 to 1920 . He graduated from Zurich in 1920 with the state examination. He then trained as a psychiatrist from 1921 to 1926 in Zurich, Münsingen and Berlin. He ran a practice from 1926 to 1932 in Berlin and from 1932 to 1966 in Zurich. He was initially a professor at the St. Gallen Commercial College . From 1957 to 1965 he was adjunct professor for psychotherapy at the University of Zurich.
Psychoanalysis
Bally had completed training as a psychoanalyst at the "Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute" ( IPV , Freudian). However, he viewed Freudian psychoanalysis from a distance and tried to enrich it with existential analytical approaches by Ludwig Binswanger and anthropological findings from Adolf Portmann . In doing so he aroused suspicion in the "Swiss Psychoanalytic Association" (Freudians).
Bally was a trainer for psychotherapists at the Burghölzli Psychiatric University Clinic (director: Bleuler ) and later a training analyst .
He analyzed u. a. Gaetano Benedetti , Gerd Biermann , Fritz Meerwein Alexander Mitscherlich , and Ambros Uchtenhagen .
Fonts (selection)
- Psychological phenomena changing in meaning. Haupt, Bern 1924 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1923/24); Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln 1970.
- From the origin and from the limits of freedom: an interpretation of the game in animals and humans. Schwabe, Basel 1945.
- Order and originality. In: Psyche . Vol. 9, 1955, pp. 329-349.
- Introduction to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1961.
Web links
- Publications by and about Gustav Bally in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Gustav Bally in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christian Müller : Bally, Gustav. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Bally Gustav (Emil Alb.) , Matriculation Edition, University of Zurich website, accessed on January 12, 2013.
- ↑ in: Life as a conflict: on the biography of Alexander Mitscherlich , p. 108
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bally, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bally Gustav Emil Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1966 |
| Place of death | Zurich |