Philipp Sarasin (psychiatrist)

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Philipp Alfred Sarasin (born May 22, 1888 in Basel ; † November 28, 1968 in Basel ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Philipp Sarasin (1888–1968) Dr. med., psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founding member and president of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis. Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Sarasin studied medicine and passed the state examination in 1915 . He then worked as a trainee with Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli institution and began Jungian psychoanalysis with Franz Riklin . From 1916 to 1921 he worked under Friedrich Ris at the Rheinau institution . He received his doctorate from Bleuler in 1919. He completed another short psychoanalysis with Hanns Sachs . In 1920 he met Sigmund Freud at the congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association in The Hague , from whom he was analyzed from spring 1921. Back in Basel, he worked as a volunteer at the newly founded Psychiatric Polyclinic . In 1924 he opened a psychoanalytical practice on Gartenstrasse, which he ran until his death. In 1960 he suffered a heart attack . His grave is on the Wolfgottesacker .

Sarasin was a founding member in 1919 and President of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis from 1928 to 1961 .

Fonts

  • Associations of erethic oligophrenics . In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . Vol. 4 (1919), H. 1 u. 2 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1919).
  • Goethe's mignon . A psychoanalytic study. In: Imago . Vol. 15 (1929), pp. 349-399; Reprint: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Vienna 1930 ( digitized version ).
  • My guidelines. In: Bulletin of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis. H. 3, 1966, p. 1.
  • How I came to Freud. In: Bulletin of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis. Summer 1968, p. 1 f.

literature

  • Paul Parin : Philipp Sarasin 80 years. In: Bulletin of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis. H. 7, 1968, p. 1 f.
  • Gustav Adolf Wanner : Philipp Sarasin. In: Basler Nachrichten . May 21, 1968.
  • Werner Pfendsack: Philipp Sarasin Dr. med. May 22, 1888-28. November 1968. Basel 1968 (funeral speech).
  • Thomas Haenel: Philipp Sarasin. In: The same: On the history of psychiatry: Thoughts on the general and Basler psychiatry history. Birkhäuser, Basel 1982, ISBN 3-7643-1356-0 , p. 186 f.
  • Paul Roazen : Interview with Philipp Sarasin. In: The historiography of psychoanalysis. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick 2001, pp. 167-171.
  • Kaspar Weber: Philipp Sarasin (1888–1968). In: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis . Thomson Gale, Detroit 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Sarasin, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarasin, Philipp Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1968
Place of death Basel