Hanna Segal
Hanna Segal (born August 20, 1918 in Łódź ; † July 5, 2011 in London ) was a British psychoanalyst , psychiatrist and university professor who - along with Wilfred Bion and Herbert Rosenfeld - is regarded as an "authority on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients."
Life
During the German conquest of Poland in 1939, Hanna Poznanska fled to France via detours, and in 1940 she had to flee from Paris to England before the German invasion . Hanna Segal became a close collaborator and colleague of Melanie Klein and one of the most important representatives of the object relationship theory . In 1987 she held the prestigious Freud Memorial Chair at University College London .
plant
The concept of symbolic equation comes from Segal . It distinguishes between two types of symbols: real and spurious symbols. A real symbol has a representative function, it stands for something else that does not have to be present. A fake symbol, on the other hand, has no representative function. The difference between symbolized and symbolized is invisible to the person. The symbol is equated with the symbolized object, so that the two are experienced as identical.
Example of symbolic equation: A king has lost a battle. A messenger brings him the news of the lost battle on a piece of paper. When the king reads the message, he is angry. He burns the sheet of paper, then has the messenger beheaded. The message (symbol for the lost battle) is equated with the symbolized (the lost battle). The logic is: If the symbol is destroyed, the symbolized is also destroyed, as if there were no difference between the symbolized and the symbolized.
According to Segal, the normal development in thinking takes place through the development from false to genuine symbol formation. The ability to tolerate psychological pain goes hand in hand with the ability to form genuine symbols.
literature
- Katharina Leitner: Hanna Segal . In: Pritz, Stumm (ed.): Personal dictionary of psychotherapy . Vienna / New York, NY (USA) 2005, ISBN 3-211-83818-X , pp. 434 ff .
- Jean-Michel Quinodoz: A l'écoute d'Hanna Segal: Sa contribution à la psychanalyse . Presses Universitaires de France , 2008, ISBN 2-13-056016-4 .
- Paul Vitello: Hanna Segal, Who Popularized Play Therapy, Dies at 92 . In: The New York Times , August 1, 2011.
Web links
- Psychoanalysts in Europe. Biographical lexicon
- Literature by and about Hanna Segal in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Bell and John Steiner: Hanna Segal obituary , In: The Guardian , July 14, 2011.
- ↑ Pritz, Stumm (Ed.): Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy . Vienna / New York, NY (USA) 2005, p. 434 ff .
- ↑ Hans Hopf, Lecture A4, April 11-15, 2005, as part of the 55th Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks 2005 (www.Lptw.de), reluctance to play and learning inhibition in early childhood and later disorders in so-called ADHD children
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Segal, Hanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Poznanska, Hanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British psychoanalyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Łódź |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 2011 |
| Place of death | London |