Hans Binder (doctor)

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Hans Hermann Binder (born April 6, 1899 in Zurich ; † May 18, 1989 there ; reformed ; resident in St. Gallen and Zurich) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

Hans Binder was born on April 6, 1899 in Zurich, the son of the doctor Hermann Carl Binder and Bertha, née Keller. After attending school in Zurich, Binder studied medicine at the University of Zurich , which he graduated with the state examination in 1923. He then completed training in psychiatry at the Burghölzli clinics in Zurich, in Heidelberg and in Rheinau near Zurich. In 1924 he received his doctorate from Eugen Bleuler in Basel with the work investigations into sentence associations in healthy people .

As a result, Binder acted from 1930 to 1942 as head of the Psychiatric University Policlinic Basel . In 1933 he received his habilitation at the University of Basel with a thesis on the Rorschach test . From 1942 to 1964 Binder was director of the Rheinau psychiatric clinic. At the same time he taught from 1942 as an associate professor at the University of Basel.

Hans Binder was married to Nelly, the daughter of the mechanical engineer Friedrich Meyer. He died on May 18, 1989, one month after turning 90 in Zurich.

Act

Binder wrote significant papers on illegitimate motherhood , alcoholism , the Rorschach test, personality variants and anonymous letter writers. He represented eugenics and was a renowned court expert . Together with the Burghölzli director Hans W. Maier and Alfred Glaus, he standardized the "Zurich practice of prohibition of marriage , abortion regulations , sterilization and castration ", which had already been established by Maier's predecessors and which had an effect far beyond the Burghölzli.

Honors

In 1964, Binder received an honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into sentence associations in healthy people. Leemann, Zurich 1924 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1924).
  • The chiaroscuro interpretations in Rorschach's psychodiagnostic experiment. At the same time a contribution to the theoretical justification of the experiment. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1932 (habilitation thesis, University of Basel).
  • On the psychology of obsessive-compulsive processes. Karger, Berlin 1936.
  • Illegitimate motherhood. Your psychological, psychiatric, social and legal problems. For doctors, lawyers and welfare officers. Huber, Bern 1941.
  • Psychiatric indications for abortion and sterilization. Schwabe, Basel 1946.
  • The anonymous letter writing. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1948.
  • The insanity in the right. A contribution to the clarification of the basic terms for mental disorders in the Swiss Civil Code and the Criminal Code. For lawyers and doctors. Schulthess, Zurich 1952.
  • The problem of the genius. Olten Book Friends Association, Olten 1952.
  • The human person. Their essence, their shape and their disturbances. An Introduction to Medical Anthropology. Huber, Bern 1964; 2nd edition 1974.
  • The ability to make judgments from a psychological, psychiatric and legal point of view. Schulthess, Zurich 1964.
  • The anonymous letter writers. Hippocrates, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Problems of reality. From natural science to metaphysics. Huber, Bern 1975.

literature

  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 1969, no.219.
  • Hans H. Walser : One Hundred Years of the Rheinau Clinic, 1867–1967: Scientific psychiatry and practical insane care in Switzerland using the example of a large sanatorium and nursing home. Sauerländer, Aarau 1970, pp. 53–62.
  • Ludwig J. Pongratz (ed.): Psychiatry in self-portrayals. Huber, Bern 1977.
  • Elena Rocchia: Prof. Dr. med. Hans Binder (1899-1989). His clinical-psychiatric and forensic works (= Zurich medical-historical treatises. Vol. 287). Zurich 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Binder Hans (Hermann) ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Matriculation Edition of the University of Zurich, accessed on May 2, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.matrikel.uzh.ch
  2. ↑ Thomas Huonker : Diagnostics and “Eugenics”: On the diagnoses “schizophrenia” and “moral idiocy” and how they were shaped by Eugen Bleuler and Hans Wolfgang Maier. Presentation on the Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism in the Reichenau Psychiatry Center, January 27, 2004, accessed on May 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Binder, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binder, Hans Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1989
Place of death Zurich