Ladislav Haas

Ladislav Haas (born March 1, 1904 in Lučenec , Austria-Hungary ; died February 1986 in London ) was a Czechoslovak psychoanalyst.

Life

Ladislav Haas studied medicine in Hungary and at the German-speaking Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . He practiced as a psychiatrist in Berlin . He joined the KPD in 1926 and belonged to the group of communist psychoanalysts around Wilhelm Reich . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he went to Prague and worked there as a general practitioner. In 1934 he was imprisoned for six weeks for his commitment to the communists. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in early 1939, he fled to England with his wife, a pediatrician. He received a work permit and worked in a mental hospital inWarwick .

Haas returned in 1945 and worked as a neurologist in Košice . After the communist seizure of power in 1948, like his colleagues Theodor Dozuskov and Otakar Kučera , he took over the Pavlovian doctrine ordered as the Stalinist party doctrine . Haas was involved in the medical treatment of the politician Klement Gottwald , who had been president and dictator of the ČSSR since 1948. Gottwald died of syphilis in 1953 , and Haas was imprisoned and tortured for two years without trial or evidence. After the de-Stalinization he was able to work as a doctor again. Haas left Czechoslovakia again in 1964 and became a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPS) in England . He stayed in contact with Dosuzkov and Kučera, but never returned.

literature

• Elisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 385f.
• Peter Kutter (Ed.): Psychoanalysis international: a guide to psychoanalysis throughout the world. 1. Europe . Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1992 ISBN 3-7728-1509-X , p. 42f. link

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Both 1985 and 1986 are given as the year of death