Pedro Laín Entralgo

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Pedro Laín Entralgo, 1996

Pedro Laín Entralgo (born February 15, 1908 in Urrea de Gaén , Teruel province , † June 5, 2001 in Madrid ) was a Spanish doctor , medical historian and writer . He is a representative of the Madrid School of Existentialism and in particular developed the generation theory of Ortega y Gasset .

Life

Entralgo was the son of a country doctor. He published poems , short stories and novels . After studying chemistry and medicine in Saragossa and Madrid, he worked in psychiatry . In 1958 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1951 he was a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Awards received included the Prince of Asturias Prize (1989). Entralgo was a member of the Academies of Language, History and Medicine.

Entralgo considered supporting Hitler and Mussolini his worst political mistake.

Around 1950, Entralgo coined the term “ Heidelberg School ” in his “Historia Medica” , the aim of which was “to be an activity by people for people ”. Entralgo described the Heidelberg School, the combination of scientific training and anthropological orientation, as the " breakthrough on a new path in the history of medicine ." Entralgo saw Sigmund Freud's revolutionary contribution to the description of diagnosis in medicine, psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the introduction of the life story or the biographical narrative of the patient as an integral part of the anamnesis. Entralgo saw this claim realized in the Heidelberg School.

Fonts

  • Espana como problema / Spain as a problem (1940).
  • Bichat . Seleccion, notas y estudio preliminar, In: Ediciones el Centauro, Clasicos de la medicina, 1946.
  • Hipocratismo, Neohipocratismo y Transhipocratismo. In: Asclepio 16 (1964), pp. 5-18.
  • La medicina hipocrática, Madrid (1970).
  • Sobre la amistad / About friendship (1972).
  • Teatro del Mundo / Theater of the World (1986).
  • Esperanza en el tiempo crisis / Hope in Times of Crisis (1993).
  • with Luis Rosales, José Antonio Maravall: Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) , Volume 12 by Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos , Publ. Instituto de Cooperación Iboamericana, Madrid 1993.
  • Historia universal de la medicina. Masson (1998). ISBN 978-84-458-0670-8 .
  • what is the human?

As an employee

  • Preface (Prólogo) to: José Barón Fernández: Miguel Servet . Su vida y su obra , Colección austral, 92 A Historia, Verlag Espasa Calpe Madrid 1989, ISBN 978-84-239-1892-8 .

literature

  • Mechthilde Kütemeyer: Anthropological Medicine or the Emergence of a New School. On the history of the Heidelberg School, dissertation Institute for the History of Medicine of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , supervisor Heinrich Schipperges , 1973, multiple citations from Pedro Lain Entralgo, who was one of the first to speak of the "Heidelberg Anthropological School".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Pedro Laín Entralgo at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : The Heidelberg School of Anthropological Medicine , in: Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch (eds.), On behalf of the Rector Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel : Scientific Atlas of the University of Heidelberg , Verlag Bibliotheca Palatina Knittlingen 2011, pp. 116–120.
  3. ^ Heinrich Schipperges : On the role of the Heidelberg school , in: Doctors in Heidelberg. A chronicle from "Homo Heidelbergensis" to "Medicine on the move". Edition Braus Heidelberg 1995, with insert by Wolfgang U. Eckart 2006, pp. 206-209
  4. ↑ Zvi Lothane : Dramatology vs. narratology: a new synthesis for psychiatry, psychoanalysis and interpersonal drama therapy (IDT) , in: Archives of Psychiatrie and Psychotherapy, 2011, 4: 29-43, Laín-Entralgo: the over all biography of the patient , p. 33.
  5. ↑ Zvi Lothane : Dramatology in life, disorder, and psychoanalytic therapy: A further contribution to interpersonal psychoanalysis , in: International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 18: 3 (2009), p. 136.

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personal data
SURNAME Laín Entralgo, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Urrea de Gaén , Teruel Province
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2001
Place of death Madrid