Kenower W. Bash

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Kenower Weimar Bash (born August 21, 1913 in New Glasgow ; † February 11, 1986 in Zurich ) was an American - Swiss psychologist , psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Kenower Weimar Bash was born in Canada as a US citizen. He attended schools for the most part in Detroit . In 1934 he began studying medicine at the University of Toronto , but switched to psychology at the University of Chicago in 1936 , where he obtained a Master of Science degree in 1937 . Impressed by Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology , he came to Switzerland in 1938 and began studying medicine at the University of Zurich . At the same time he completed a training analysis with Jung and Carl Alfred Meier . In 1940 Bash interrupted his studies because of the war and in 1941 took up a position as an assistant at the Swiss Institute for Epileptics . After a long trip through Denmark and Sweden, where he got to know electroencephalography (EEG), in 1948 he set up the first EEG laboratory in Switzerland at the Institute for Epileptics. In the same year he completed his medical studies and received his doctorate with a thesis on the relationship between analytical psychology and gestalt psychology . From 1948 to 1949 Bash was a medical assistant at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Zurich. From 1950 to 1953 he worked as an assistant doctor at the Swiss Institute for Epileptics. From 1953 to 1954, Bash worked for one year under the direction of Hans Binder as deputy head of the Psychiatric Polyclinic Winterthur and senior physician at the cantonal sanatorium and nursing home in Rheinau . From 1954 to 1955 he was again assistant doctor and senior physician at the Swiss Institute for Epileptics. From 1956 to 1958, Bash was the first senior physician and deputy director under Fred Singeisen at the Wil cantonal sanatorium ( St. Gallen ).

From 1942 he was married to the chemist and doctor Johanna Bash-Liechti (1907–1980). In 1956 he was naturalized in Zurich.

From 1958 to 1960, Bash worked as the Medical Officer of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Cairo, where he set up an EEG laboratory at Abbassia Hospital and trained the staff for it. In 1960 the WHO appointed him Senior Advisor for Neuropsychiatry in Tehran. His job was to work with the Ministry of Health to reform and build up psychiatric services in Iran . As with his assignment in Cairo, he worked as a lecturer at various universities in the country and as a consultant in several countries in the Middle East . In 1963 he started epidemiological surveys in villages in Iran.

In 1964, Bash came to the Waldau Psychiatric University Clinic in Bern under the directorate of Hans Walther-Büel , where he worked as a senior physician from July 1. On January 1, 1966, he became deputy director and on October 1, 1970, deputy director of Waldau. In 1966 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern and was appointed part-time professor in 1967 and a full-time associate professor in 1972 with a teaching position for psychopathology, analytical psychology and Rorschach psychodiagnostics. In the summer of 1978, Bash retired.

During the same time, Bash and his wife continued to work in Iran almost every year. They carried out epidemiological surveys in villages, for example in 1965 for four months in the Khuzestan region . In 1969/70 he and his wife carried out a large survey in the city of Shiraz on behalf of the WHO, on leave in Bern . They processed the material obtained at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Wassenaar , where he held a one-year research grant from September 1, 1973. The Islamic Revolution in 1979 brought the project to a standstill as no further surveys were possible. The results were published posthumously in 1987 in the book Developing Psychiatry .

Bash spent the last eight years of his life, interrupted by trips to the Middle East and to congresses, in Stäfa on Lake Zurich. He died in 1986 of pancreatic cancer .

Bash was one of the initiators of the International Rorschach Society , founded in Bern in 1949 , of which he was first vice-president from 1977 and of which he was president from 1981. From 1954 to 1963 he was a member of the board of trustees of the CG Jung Institute, where he also lectured in psychopathology. He also worked in private practice, from 1978 almost exclusively as a training analyst.

He published around 100 works, including his textbook on general psychopathology , published in 1955 , which is based on gestalt- and analytical-psychological approaches. He also published works by Hermann Rorschach (1965) and Hans Binder (1979).

Fonts (selection)

As an author
  • Consciousness and the unconscious in depth and Gestalt psychology. North-Holland Publishing, Zurich 1949 (= dissertation , University of Zurich, 1949).
  • Textbook of general psychopathology: basic concepts and clinic. Thieme, Stuttgart 1955 (= habilitation thesis , University of Bern).
  • (with Johanna Bash-Liechti ) Developing Psychiatry: Epidemiological and Social Studies in Iran 1963–1976 (= monographs from all areas of psychiatry. Vol. 43). Springer, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-540-17058-8 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-82915-4 .
  • Analytical psychology in the field of science. Edited by Christian Scharfetter. Huber, Bern 1988, ISBN 3-456-81656-1 .
As editor

literature

  • Bash, Kenower Weimar. In: The lecturers of the Bern University of Applied Sciences 1528–1984. University of Bern, Bern 1984.
  • David W. Ellis: Professor Dr. KW Bash, 1913-1986. In: Journal of Personality Assessment. Vol. 50 (1986), No. 3, pp. 348 f., Doi: 10.1207 / s15327752jpa5003_2 .
  • Ursula Mehregan: Obituary Notices. KW Bash. In: Journal of Analytical Psychology. Vol. 31 (1986), No. 4, pp. 377 f., Doi: 10.1111 / j.1465-5922.1986.00377.x .
  • Ursula Mehregan (Ed.): In memory of Professor Dr. med. KW Bash. Huber, Bern 1988 (?) (With poems by Kenower W. Bash, obituaries and list of publications).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ International Directory of Psychologists. 1966, p. 408.
  2. ↑ This section is based, in addition to the literature, on: Kenower W. Bash: Preface. In: Developing Psychiatry (see publications), pp. VI – XI ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Bash, Kenower W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bash, Kenower Weimar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Swiss psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH New Glasgow , Canada
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1986
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland