Max Schur

Max Schur (born September 26, 1897 in Stanislau , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † October 12, 1969 in New York City ) was an Austrian doctor and psychoanalyst and for many years the personal physician of Sigmund Freud .

Life

In 1914, Schur fled the Russian army to Vienna , where he studied medicine and also attended Freud's lectures during this time.

From 1926 to 1932 he completed a training analysis with Ruth Brunswick . In 1929, Schur became Freud's personal physician on the recommendation of Marie Bonaparte . The best choice had been made with Schur. He got on very well with his patient, and his attention, tireless patience, and resourcefulness were unparalleled.

Schur became a good friend of Freud and fled with him to London . Freud suffered from cancer of the mouth and larynx in the last phase of his life. Schur had promised him not to let him suffer unnecessarily. When the time came, Schur gave him a lethal injection of morphine . This is probably the first documented case of terminal sedation . After Freud's death, Schur emigrated to the United States and found a job as a doctor in the dermatological department of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. From 1957 he worked primarily as a psychoanalyst and was also temporarily president of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Schur published medical and psychoanalytic work. His best-known book Freud Living and Dying is an extensive study of Freud's relationship to illness and dying.

Fonts

The Id and the Regulatory Principles of Mental Functioning. International Universities Press, New York 1966.
- German edition: The id and the regulatory principles of psychological happenings. Translated by Kate Hill. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-596-27338-2 .
Freud: Living and Dying. Hogarth, London 1972.
- German edition: Sigmund Freud. Life and death . Translated by Gert Müller. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1973 ISBN 3-518-07273-0 .

literature

Michael Beldoch: The death of the hero. An essay on Max Schur's Freud: Living and Dying . In: Bulletin Menninger Clinic. 1974, Nov 38 (6), pp. 516-526.
Maurice R. Friend: Max Schur 1897–1969. In: International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. Vol. 52 (1971), p. 231 f.
Ernest Jones : The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. Volume 3: The Last Phase 1929–1939 . 3. Edition. Huber, Bern 1982, ISBN 3-456-81195-0 .
Bernhard Brömmel: Max Schur , in: Oskar Frischenschlager (Ed.): Vienna, where else! The emergence of psychoanalysis and its schools . Vienna: Böhlau, 1994, ISBN 3-205-98135-9 , pp. 134-138

Web links

Stephen M. Wittenberg, MD and Lewis M. Cohen, MD- Max Schur, MD, 1897-1969
Roy K. Lilleskov: Schur, Max (1897–1969). In: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis . Thomson Gale, Detroit 2005.
Literature by and about Max Schur in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Ernest Jones : The life and work of Sigmund Freud. Volume 3: The Last Phase 1929–1939 . Huber, Bern 1982, 3rd edition, ISBN 3-456-81195-0 , p. 175.

personal data
SURNAME	Schur, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian doctor and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ivano-Frankivsk
DATE OF DEATH	October 12, 1969
Place of death	New York City

[1] Ernest Jones : The life and work of Sigmund Freud. Volume 3: The Last Phase 1929–1939 . Huber, Bern 1982, 3rd edition, ISBN 3-456-81195-0 , p. 175.