Gustav Hans Graber

Gustav Hans Graber (born May 17, 1893 in Vorimholz, today Grossaffoltern , † April 12, 1982 in Bern ) was a Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst . He is considered a pioneer of pre- and perinatal research in the context of psychology.

Overview of life and work

Graber was born and raised in the Bernese Seeland . He attended the teachers' seminar, then he studied psychology at the University of Bern . In 1924 he received his doctorate . His dissertation The Ambivalence of the Child appeared in the same year as Otto Rank's book The Trauma of Birth , which has a similar approach and was rejected by Freud . Graber was a member of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG) and thus of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPV) .

In 1929 he opened his own psychoanalytic practice in Stuttgart . From 1941 to 1943 he worked at the Stuttgart Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy . In 1943 he returned to Bern. He deals intensively with the psychology of Carl Gustav Carus , which he contrasts with Freudian psychoanalysis. Together with Ernst Blum , he founded the Bern Working Group for Depth Psychology and the Institute for Depth Psychology , both of which he headed until 1970. 1949-64 he was editor of the journal Der Psychologe . In 1971 he was co-founder and first chairman of the International Study Group for Prenatal Psychology in Vienna .

factories

Single issues

• The ambivalence of the child (dissertation), Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1924
• The black spider. Human development based on Jeremias Gotthelf's novel of the same name, illustrated with special consideration of the role of women , Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1925
  • 2nd, extended edition with appendix: GBS, Schwarzenburg / Bern 1952
• Procreation, birth and death. Becoming and passing away in the myth and in the child's imagination. A psychoanalytic comparison , Merlin, Baden-Baden 1930
• Psychoanalysis and healing of a night-walking boy , Merlin, Baden-Baden 1931
• The cruise of life. Legends , Rascher, Zurich 1934
• Unity and dichotomy of the soul. Development, structure and ambivalence of the mental life in the child (2nd, greatly expanded and revised edition of The Ambivalence of the Child ), Hans Huber, Bern 1945
• Soul mirror of the child. Insight into depth psychological upbringing and child analysis , Artemis, Zurich 1946
• From morning to noon. Seven new fairy tales , Rascher, Zurich 1948
• The woman's soul. The eternally feminine in girl, woman and mother , Artemis, Zurich 1951
  • revised edition: Depth Psychology of Women. Development from girl to woman and mother , Goldmann, Munich 1966
• On the psychoanalysis of an eczema and asthma patient , Klett-Cotta (= special print from the journal Psyche ), Stuttgart 1957
• Man's psychology. New findings in psychology , Huber / Klett, Bern and Stuttgart 1957
• Mental ailments and their treatment , Ardschuna, Bern 1962
  • Revised edition: Goldmann ( Yellow Pocket Books 2735 ), Munich 1970
• The creator , Ardschuna, Bern 1963
• The hardship of life and how to overcome it. On the depth psychology of birth trauma and postnatal life , Ardschuna, Bern 1966
• Origin, unity and conflict of the soul. Pre- and postnatal development of mental life , Goldmann ( Yellow Pocket Books 2736 ), Munich 1970
• Character types and their fates in depth psychological practice and view , Goldmann ( Yellow Pocket Books 2786 ), Munich 1971
• New contributions to the teaching and practice of psychotherapy. Core problems of peri- and prenatal depth psychology , Goldmann (Taschenbuch 9007), Munich 1972
• Prenatal Psychology. Research into prenatal perceptions and sensations (as ed.), Kindler ( Geist und Psyche 2123 ), Munich 1974

Collective edition

• Collected Writings :
  • Volume 1: Depth psychological education and child psychotherapy , Goldmann, Munich 1975
  • Volume 2: Depth Psychology of Man and Woman , Goldmann, Munich 1975
  • Volume 3: Psychotherapy as Self-Realization , Goldmann, Munich 1975
  • Volume 4: Literary Writings , Pinel, Berlin 1978

literature

• Michael Schröter: Gustav Hans Graber and his acceptance into the DPG, or: On the professionalization status of German psychoanalysis around 1930 (with documents). In: Lucifer Cupid. Vol. 13 (2000), issue 26, p. 16 ff.

Web links

• A short biography (PDF file; 20 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Psychologist: Psychological Monthly and The Psychologist: Yearbook in the catalog of the German National Library .