Hedda Bolgár

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Hedda Bolgár , also Hedda Bolgar (born August 19, 1909 in Zurich ; died May 13, 2013 in Los Angeles ) was a Hungarian-American psychologist and psychoanalyst.

Life

Hedda Bolgár was the daughter of the political scientist and socialist Elek Bolgár , who was studying and doing his doctorate in Switzerland at the time of her birth, and the journalist Elza Stern . Bolgar grew up in Budapest and, after the suppression of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in Vienna . She studied at the University of Vienna from 1930 and was trained by Karl Bühler in 1934 with the dissertation The structure of experience in the human life course. PhDs of experience phases and experience categories. She continued to work at the Psychological Institute at Bühler and studied with Jean Piaget in Geneva . Bolgar appeared in Austrofascist Austria against the National Socialists in the country.

When Austria was annexed in 1938, she fled to the USA and completed a psychoanalytic training at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. In 1940 she married the economist Herbert G. Bekker (died 1973), who had also fled Austria. In 1947 she and Liselotte Fischer published the non-verbal test for adults, which entered the psychological literature as the “Little World Test” (also known as “Bolgar-Fischer World Test”) and was based on the children's test by Margaret Lowenfeld and Charlotte Bühler . After a research project at Bellevue Hospital in New York City , she worked in Chicago until 1956 and also held teaching positions at the University of Chicago . Franz Alexander then brought her to the Mt. Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles as a senior psychologist . She was a co-founder of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. In 1970 she founded the Wright Institute of Los Angeles (WILA) as a training center and in 1974 a private psychotherapeutic clinic. She still worked as a " centenarian " in her profession.

Bolgar was a fellow of the American Psychological Association .

Fonts (selection)

  • A Century of Essential Feminism. In: Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2009, pp. 195–199
  • When the glass is full. In: Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Volume 22, Issue 4, 2002, pp. 640-651
  • Regression, Re-Living and Repair of Very Early Traumatization. In: Psychotherapy in Private Practice, Volume 17, Issue 4, 1998, pp. 39-51
  • Karl Buhler: 1879-1963. In: The American Journal of Psychology, Volume 77, Issue 4, 1964, pp. 674-678
  • Consistency of affect and symbolic expression: a comparison between dreams and Rorschach responses. In: American journal of orthopsychiatry, Volume 24, 1954, pp. 538-545
  • Book Review: Eroberung des Friedens , The American Journal of International Law, Volume 41, Issue 2, 1947, pp. 494–495 ( Paul Reiwald )
  • with Liselette K Fischer: Personality projection in the World Test. In: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Volume 17, Issue 1, 1947, pp. 117-128

literature

  • Gerhard Benetka, Bolgar, Hedda. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 76f.
  • Rie Rogers Mitchell: Concepts and applications of sand play: after Margaret Lowenfeld, Erik H. Erikson, Charlotte Bühler, Hedda Bolgar and Liselotte Fischer, Dora M. Kalff, Laura R. Bowyer and more recent developments . Munich: Reinhardt, 1996 ISBN 3497014133
  • A centenarian's retrospective on psychoanalysis: an interview with Hedda Bolgar. In: Michael J. Diamond, Christopher Christian (Eds.): The second century of psychoanalysis: evolving perspectives on therapeutic action . London: Karnac, 2011 ISBN 978-1-85575-800-1 , pp. 279-305 PDF

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on Elza Stern see also the article hu: Stephani Elza
  2. ↑ History of Sandplay Therapy in: Newgrove
  3. ^ Susanne Janssen: Too busy to die , in: Frankfurter Rundschau, November 9, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bolgár, Hedda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bolgar, Hedda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American psychologist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 13th of May 2013
Place of death los Angeles