Paul Rome

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Paul Rom , formerly Paul Plottke , (born March 2, 1902 in Breslau ; † February 23, 1982 in Tiberias ) was a German educator , psychotherapist , educational advisor and representative of individual psychology .

Life

Paul Plottke spent his school and university years in Leipzig and worked from 1927 to 1933 as a teacher in the Public High Handelslehranstalt of Freital in Dresden . In 1930 he joined the Dresden Association for Individual Psychology and in 1932 founded an educational counseling center in Freital. After he was taken into protective custody for three months , he first went to Paris and then from 1934 to 1935 to Athens as a healing educator . He then studied German and psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1936 to 1939 . The topic of his diploma thesis was "The main characters of the Nibelungenlied in the light of the comparative individual psychology of Alfred Adler". In 1935 he initiated a newsletter for the Adlerian Society UK and the International Association of Individual Psychology (IAIP) (from 1950: Individual Psychology News Letter (IPNL) ) and remained its editor until his death.

During the Second World War , he first served in the French Foreign Legion from 1939 to 1940 and was then interned in the Vichy government's concentration camps in Colomb-Béchar and Kenadsa in the North African desert from 1940 to 1943. There his book La Paix des Nerfs was written . 1943–1946 he served in the British Army, including 1945–1946 as a psychology instructor in the British Army in Perugia , Italy. In 1948 he taught psychology and neurophysiology for a short time at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris. Occasionally he also worked as a translator of fonts.

After the war he settled in England, where he worked as a French teacher and psychologist in a home school for boys in Kent . He later lived in London as a teacher and writer . In 1978 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Individual Psychology (DGIP) , and from 1979 until his death in 1982 he was the advisory editor of the magazine Gestalt Theory .

Services

Plottke / Rome primarily served pedagogical-psychological practice. At all stages of his life he tried to bring the individual psychology of Adler closer to people. With his publications he wanted to educate people and help them to set up a better life.

Publications

(Paul Plottke):

  • (with Hermann Thurow): Muse and worker (demon alcohol). R. Lipinski, Leipzig 1925
  • Against the drink! Voices of the poets. Deutscher Arbeiter-Abstinenten-Bund, Berlin 1924. 2nd expanded edition 1926
  • (as translator): Auguste Forel - The true socialism of the future. German Workers' Abstinents Association, Berling 1926
  • (as translator): Auguste Forel - Small philosophy for everyone. Kaden, Dresden 1928
  • La paix des nerfs exposé d'une psychologie pratique. Éditions du Mont-Blanc, Geneva 1943, 2nd edition 1945

(from now on as "Paul Rom"):

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to Obituary for Paul Rom by Heinz L. Ansbacher
  2. ↑ This and some of the following life data from the author's statements in Paul Plotte (1978), Who wants to be neurotic? , Darmstadt: Steinkopff.
  3. ^ Paul Rom: Alfred Adler and the scientific knowledge of human nature, Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1966
personal data
SURNAME Rome, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plottke, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, psychotherapist, educational advisor and representative of individual psychology
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1982
Place of death Tiberias