Harald Leupold-Loewenthal

Vienna Central Cemetery - honorary grave of Harald Leupold-Löwenthal

Harald Johann Friedrich Leupold-Löwenthal (born August 6, 1926 in Vienna ; † March 13, 2007 ibid) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who had been a freelance psychoanalyst since 1971 .

Life

Leupold-Löwenthal was born in Vienna. After the war Matura 1943 in the gymnasium Stubenbastei and short military service, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna and 1951 took a position at the Vienna Psychiatric University Hospital of.

In 1953 and 1954 he studied in London before he was recognized as a specialist in psychiatry and neurology in 1959 . From 1961 to 1963 he worked at the Psychiatric Hospital of the City of Vienna . At the same time he completed a psychoanalytic training and his training analysis . In 1964 he opened his own practice.

In 1963 Leupold-Löwenthal became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association , from 1967 to 1973 he was its secretary, from 1974 to 1981 its chairman.

Together with Friedrich Hacker and others, Leupold-Löwenthal was a member of the founding board of the Vienna Sigmund Freud Society , which was founded in 1968, and in 1971 he was in charge of setting up the Sigmund Freud Museum in Sigmund Freud's former apartment in Vienna. From 1976 to 1999 he was President of the Sigmund Freud Society.

In 1982, Leupold-Löwenthal completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna and received the license to teach psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with consideration of clinical psychotherapy.

One of Leupold-Löwenthal's last public appearances took place after the death of Gerhard Bronners , whose close friend he was and whom he remembered on a TV commemorative program.

Leupold-Löwenthal suffered a cardiac arrest in March 2007, according to a report from the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

In memory of him, the Kidney Children Association (formerly dialysis children) is supported at the Charité Berlin. In Vienna, projects of the Friends of Dialysis Children Association, in the General Hospital (AKH), ​​are financed.

TV documentary

"Actually, I wanted to become an ornithologist ", Harald Leupold-Löwenthal revealed his original career aspiration in the portrait designed by the Viennese director Christian M. Kreuziger with the unspectacular title An Approach on the occasion of the psychoanalyst's 80th birthday in 2006. Leupold-Löwenthal insists, so said cabaret artist and lifelong friend Gerhard Bronner in the documentary, from several personalities: “ Leupold is a real Meidlinger , speaks the language of this Viennese suburb with its hearty expressions and prefers to read trash novels. The Löwenthal, on the other hand, is a distinguished, educated academic ... ”.

In the film, Harald Leupold-Löwenthal also tells why the hearty Viennese expression “g'schissn” moved him to tears, how he greeted the milkwoman with “three liters” instead of “Heil Hitler” and why he was described by the Nazis as “political unreliable ”.

Works

• Handbook of Psychoanalysis . Orac, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7015-0047-9 .
• An impossible job: About the fine art of being an analyst. Work on psychoanalysis. Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98412-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Harald Leupold-Löwenthal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary for Harald Leupold-Löwenthal on ORF ON
• Documentation about Harald Leupold-Löwenthal from Cinecraft (Vienna)