Raymond Battegay

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Raymond Battegay (2008)

Raymond Battegay-Fitaya (born June 27, 1927 in Bern ; died October 4, 2016 ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst . From 1976 until his retirement in 1997, he was full professor of psychiatry at the University of Basel . He worked for a long time as the chief physician of the Psychiatric University Policlinic Basel and became known through many years of teaching and research work as well as numerous publications. Among other things, he taught at the Wiesbaden Academy for Psychotherapy . From 1977 to 1980 he served as President of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy, which he co-founded . He ran a private practice for psychiatry and psychotherapy in Basel.

Life

Battegay's parents were the Jewish merchant couple Karl (called Charles, 1885–1935) and Marguerite (1900–1984) Battegay-Goetschel. The father came from Biel , the mother from Basel .

He went to primary school in Biel until 1935. This was followed by the move to Basel to see her maternal grandmother, Sara Goetschel-Schrameck (1873–1960). He completed further primary school years and secondary school in Basel, and Raymond Battegay passed the high school diploma in 1946. He began his medical studies in the same year at the faculty of the University of Basel. In 1952 the doctorate followed . He passed the examination to become a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy in 1957.

In 1955 Raymond Battegay married Shulamit Violet Fitaya from Israel (born in Baghdad, Iraq). The marriage had three children: Edouard (internist, born 1956, married to Dominique nee Rothschild), Manuel (internist, born 1960, married to Muriel nee Rothschild) and Oscar (lawyer, born 1962, married to Simone née Berger).

In 1953 Battegay became an assistant doctor at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel, and in 1958 a senior physician . In 1962 he received the venia docendi , in 1968 he became head physician , in 1969 associate professor and in 1976 full professor ad personam. He retired on August 31, 1997 and opened a private practice for psychiatry and psychotherapy in Basel on September 15, 1997.

Battegay wrote 709 scientific papers, including 36 monographs (17 as sole author, 19 as co-author or (co-) editor) on group psychotherapy and psychology, neurosis, medical psychology, addiction research and treatment, psychotherapy, depression, anxiety, aggression, Auto-destruction, borderline situations, especially psychoanalysis, psychopathology, social psychiatry and psychopharmacotherapy and a concise dictionary of psychiatry. Some of the monographs and the concise dictionary are available in Italian, Spanish or English translation.

Publications (selection)

  • Narcissism and object relationships: via the self to the object. Huber, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-456-84509-8 .
  • (with Nossrat Peseschkian ) The stairs to happiness: 50 answers to life's big questions. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-17112-5 .
  • Borderline situations. Kreuz, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-7831-2628-0 .
  • Raymond Battegay (ed.): Psychotherapy of the psychoses: Horizons and prospects. Reinhardt, Basel 2003, ISBN 978-3-7245-1252-3 .
  • The group as fate. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-45881-9 .
  • Raymond Battegay (Ed.): Supervision in selected fields of practice. In: Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics. Vol. 34 (1998), 3 (special issue), pp. 199-289.
  • Fear and being. Edition Wötzel, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-925831-12-6 .
  • Raymond Battegay (Ed.): Being human as a woman, as a man. Reinhardt, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-7245-0844-1 .
  • Psychoanalytic theory of neuroses. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-12233-3 .
  • From the background of addictions. Blaukreuz-Verlag, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-85580-322-6 .
  • Hunger diseases: insatiability as a pathological phenomenon. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-42287-6

Magazines

  • Group psychotherapy and group dynamics , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Zurich: co-founder and editor, since the beginning (1967)
  • Group Analysis (England): Member of the International Advisory Panel (since 1972)
  • International Journal of Group Psychotherapy (USA): Corresponding Editor (since 1958), Consulting Editor (since 1992)
  • Psihoterapija (Yugoslavia) International Member of the Editorial Board
  • Rivista Italiana di Gruppoanalisi (Italy): Member of the Advisory Board (since 1986)
  • Journal for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy (BRD): Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (1975–2000)
  • Crisis: International magazine for suicide and crisis situations: Editor-in-Chief 1983–1991, then coeditor
  • Medicine Human Society (FRG): former co-editor (since 1983)
  • Former journal: Psychosomatic Medicine , Unionsverlag Solothurn: founding member
  • Psicologia Medica y Psicoterapia (Spain): Member of the Editing Board (since 1988)
  • The International Journal of the Addiction (USA): former member of the International Editorial Board (1967 first edition) -1976
  • Revista de Psicologia y Psicoterapia de Grupo (Argentina): Corresponding member (since 1987)
  • American Journal of Psychotherapy: Member of the International Editorial Board (since 1995)
  • Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , Poland: Member of the International Advisory Board since it was founded in 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Battegay, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Battegay-Fitaya, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2016