Paul Plattner
Paul Plattner (born June 25, 1907 in Chur ; † February 26, 1980 in the valley of Bîr Umm Tâghir, Safaga , Al-Bahr al-ahmar , Egypt ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and non-fiction author.
Life
Paul Plattner was one of twelve children of Placidus Plattner, who worked as chief physician at the Kreuzspital in Chur , and Marie b. Clausen. When he was eighteen, his father died in a car accident. He graduated from high school in Chur and studied medicine at the Universities of Geneva and Hamburg . Plattner originally wanted surgeon be, but turned to a hemorrhage of psychiatry to. He worked as an assistant doctor at the psychiatric clinics in Basel and Bern . Plattner received his doctorate1938 with John E. Staehelin at the University of Basel with a thesis on insulin shock therapy . From 1940 to 1972 he was the head physician of the private nerve sanatorium Wyss in Münchenbuchsee .
After an insulin shock treatment by Paul Plattner, Friedrich Glauser suffered an insulin shock with unconsciousness and twitching on February 15, 1938 in the Friedmatt asylum in Basel. He fell and suffered a skull base fracture . Glauser did not recover from the consequences of this treatment (headache, difficulty concentrating and working); he died on December 8, 1938.
Plattner's goal was the reintegration of the mentally ill into the community. He belonged to Paul Tournier's "Médicine de la personne" movement . Another interest Plattner was interested in was marriage counseling and therapy. His book Happier Marriages has been translated into English, Spanish, and Dutch.
In 1978 Plattner was one of the founders of the Pro Mente Sana Foundation .
From July 1, 1933, he was born with Vera. Bernhard married. Plattner and his wife died in a traffic accident while traveling in Egypt.
Fonts
- Amnestic syndrome after insulin cardiazole treatment . In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry. Vol. 162 (1938), pp. 728-740, doi: 10.1007 / BF02890991 (dissertation, University of Basel).
- Happier marriages. Huber, Bern 1950.
literature
- The Plattner era from 1940 to 1972 and the turning point in psychiatric treatment methods. In: Anna Bähler , Katharina Moser: The history of the Wyss private clinic. Wyss Private Clinic, Münchenbuchsee 2010, pp. 43–52 ( online ; PDF; 7.9 MB).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Who’s who in Switzerland including the principality of Liechtenstein. 1965, p. 459.
- ↑ a b Jürg Gassmann: History of the Swiss Pro Mente Sana Foundation - from its beginnings to 2010. Pro Mente Sana, 2011 ( online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice .; PDF file; 415 kB).
- ↑ a b c d e The Plattner era 1940 to 1972 and the turning point in psychiatric treatment methods. In: Anna Bähler , Katharina Moser: The history of the Wyss private clinic. Privatklinik Wyss, Münchenbuchsee 2010, pp. 43–52, here p. 46 ( online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; PDF file; 7.6 MB).
- ^ Bibliographic record , IDS Basel Bern , accessed on June 2, 2012.
- ^ Thomas Huonker : Diagnosis: "Morally defective": castration, sterilization and racial hygiene in the service of Swiss social policy and psychiatry, 1890-1970. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-06003-6 , p. 75 f. ( online ).
- ↑ Simon Steiner: Two souls in the charitable breast: Mental health between charity and social psychiatry. In: Beatrice Schumacher : Voluntarily committed: Charitable acting and thinking in Switzerland since 1800. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03823-594-1 , pp. 369–394.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plattner, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss psychiatrist and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chur |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1980 |
| Place of death | Bîr Umm Tâghir, Safaga , Al-Bahr al-ahmar , Egypt |