Heinrich Winnik

Heinrich Winnik (born July 29, 1902 in Nepolokoutz , Bukowina , † November 10, 1982 in Jerusalem ) was a Romanian-Israeli neurologist, psychoanalyst, hospital founder in Israel, professor of psychiatry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association .

Life

Heinrich Winnik was born the son of the Jewish scholar Simson Winnik and his wife Berta Silberbusch. His father was originally from Lemberg, his mother from Nepolokoutz in Bukowina. Heinrich Winnik attended high school in Czernowitz and later in Vienna. He completed his medical studies in Breslau and received his doctorate here in 1926 with the thesis “Variations in the peptidase balance and their significance in the genesis of epileptic seizures.” This was followed by specialist training as a neurologist, which he carried out in Chemnitz, Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna completed. In 1933 Winnik worked as an assistant doctor in Berlin. In Berlin he met Wilhelm Reich and Otto Fenichel . Winnik left the city in the same year that the National Socialists came to power because he had been urgently asked to do so by friends. In Berlin he had started a psychoanalysis with Jenö Harnik. After his escape in Vienna, he continued this analysis with Paul Federn and Helene Deutsch . The control analysis was carried out by Siegfried Bernfeld . In 1936 Heinrich Winnik became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association (WPV).

At the suggestion of Anna Freud , he founded a psychoanalytic group in Bucharest in 1936 and moved to Romania. Winnik ran a practice for psychoanalysis in Bucharest and became a training analyst. In 1941 he decided to leave Europe. While fleeing he was interned by the Germans, but was able to flee to Palestine on an illegal refugee boat. There he was briefly interned by the English army in 1942. Immediately after his release he became a member and training analyst of the Chewra Psychoanalytith b'Erez-Israel (HHBI), which had been founded by Mosche Wulff and Max Eitingon . Heinrich Winnik founded the Geha Mental Hospital of Kupat Holim, in 1947 the Shalvata Hospital and in 1950 the Talbieh Hospital in Jerusalem, of which he became director in 1951. In 1954 he became professor of psychiatry at the "Hebrew University - Hadassah School of Medicine" in Jerusalem. He founded the English-language magazine "Israel Annals of Psychiatry and Related Disciplines."

In Israel, Winnik worked with survivors of the Nazi regime. During the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1962, Shoah survivors who testified as witnesses were housed in Talbieh Hospital . One of Heinrich Winnik's interns during this time was the future US psychoanalyst Zvi Lothane .

Heinrich Winnik was married to Lucie Pick. The marriage was concluded in Vienna in 1933.

Works

• with Nathan, T. and Eitinger, GL: The psychiatric pathology of the Nazi-Holocaust survivors , Israel Annals of Psychiatry and Related Disciplines 1964, 2:47.
• Psychological Bases of War , New York 1973.
• Milestones in the Development of Psychoanalysis in Israel, Israel Annals of Psychiatry and Related Disciplines, 1977, 15, 85-91.

literature

• Popescu-Sibiu, I .: On the development of psychoanalysis in Romania , Psyche, 1974, 28: 651–654.
• The New York Times, 1982: Heinrich Winnik, 80, Of Israel; A Pioneer in Psychoanalysis , accessed April 6, 2018.
• Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938, Edition Diskord Tübingen 1992, pp. 364–366.
• Erich Beck: Bibliography on the culture and regional studies of Bukowina 1971–1990, part 2, biographical texts, Harrasowitz Verlag Wiesbaden 2003, p. 485.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elisabeth Roudinesco and Michael Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Names. Countries. Works. Terms , Volume I, Springer Vienna 2004, p. 872.

Web links

• Jewish Virtual Library: Winnik, Henry Zvi , accessed April 7, 2018.