Léon Wurmser

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Léon Wurmser (born 31 January 1931 in Zurich , died on 15. February 2020 ) was an out of the Switzerland -derived American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and the author of several extensive psychoanalytic studies.

Life

After attending an ancient language grammar school, Wurmser studied medicine at the universities of Zurich and Basel . After graduating in 1955, he trained as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy and in internal medicine . In 1959, Wurmser received his doctorate. Then he moved to Baltimore in the USA because of better training opportunities .

In his academic career, Wurmser was a clinical psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and a professor at West Virginia University in Charleston (West Virginia) , USA, and at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County . After his retirement he worked as a teaching and control analyst for the New York Freudian Society in New York and as a psychoanalyst in his own practice in Towson , Maryland , and as an internationally sought-after speaker and author.

Wurmser was one of the first analysts in the history of psychoanalysis who no longer accepted the factual dogma that the most severe borderline personality disorders could not be treated by psychoanalysis and who refuted it through at least partially successful treatments. One focus of Wurmser's publications lies in dealing with the concept of the superego and the problem of shame .

In July 2004, Wurmser was awarded an honorary doctorate from the HU Berlin . He died in February 2020 at the age of 89.

Publications

  • The broken reality. Psychoanalysis as the study of conflict and complementarity. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-540-18719-7 .
    • New edition: Vol. 1: The search for the absolute and the finding of measure. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen, 3rd edition 2001, ISBN 978-3-525-46150-1 .
    • New edition: Vol. 2: Value and truth in psychoanalysis. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen, 3rd edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-46151-8 .
  • The mask of shame. The psychoanalysis of feelings of shame and conflicts of shame. Springer, Berlin a. a., 2nd edition 1993, ISBN 3-540-50547-4 ; 7th edition: Westarp Verlagsserviceges., Hohenwarsleben 2017, ISBN 978-3-86617-142-8 .
  • The riddle of masochism. Psychoanalytic investigations into superego conflicts and masochism. Springer, Berlin a. a. 2nd edition 1998, ISBN 3-540-54767-3 .
    • New edition: The riddle of masochism. Psychoanalytic investigations of compulsive conscience and addiction to suffering. Psychosocial, Giessen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89806-741-6 .
  • Escape from conscience. Analysis of the superego and defense in severe neuroses. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-540-17733-7 .
    • New edition: Escape from conscience. Analysis of the superego and defense in severe neuroses. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-45876-1 .
    • English edition: The power of the inner judge: psychodynamic treatment of the severe neuroses . Northvale, NJ, and Aronson, London 2000, ISBN 0-7657-0177-4 .
  • The hidden dimension. Psychodynamics of drug compulsion , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 978-3-525-45789-4 .
  • Your own most hidden dark corridors. Narrative, Psychological and Historical Truth in World Literature. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-525-01451-6 .
  • Magical transformation and tragic transformation. Severe neurosis - symptom, function, personality. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-525-45844-0 .
  • World of ideas and values ​​of Judaism. A psychoanalytic view. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-01468-6 .
  • Shame and the evil eye. Understand the negative therapeutic response. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021437-8 (3rd edition 2019: ISBN 978-3-17-034178-4 ).
  • My light in your hand An analyst's reflections on religion, philosophy and literature, Klotz, Magdeburg 2012, ISBN 3-88074-385-1

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary , legacy.com, accessed March 4, 2020
  2. ↑ Eurozine: Léon Wurmser.
  3. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=Bx6ODwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2&lpg=PT2&dq=New+York+Freudian+Society+L%C3%A9on+Wurmser&source=bl&ots=IiEe_Dy7i6&sig=ACfU3U3PRjIricZnQz_U6MTTxAWCQXglow&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7oKWG7tfnAhUHCewKHUvtApYQ6AEwB3oECAoQAQ#v = onepage & q = New% 20York% 20Freudian% 20Society% 20L% C3% A9on% 20Wurmser & f = false
  4. ^ "Léon Wurmser" , author portrait at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  5. ^ Tilmann Moser : Psychoanalysis - Léon Wurmser: The terrorist superego , aerzteblatt.de, September 2013, accessed on February 16, 2020
  6. ↑ Understanding instead of condemning , edoc.hu-berlin.de, accessed on February 16, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Wurmser, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2020