Rosa Dworschak

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Rosa Dworschak (born July 1, 1896 in Sankt Peter im Sulmtal , Austria-Hungary ; died October 5, 1990 in Mödling ) was an Austrian social worker and psychoanalyst .

Life

Rosa Dworschak was the second daughter of the military bandmaster and later post-chief Karl Dworschak (1865-1933) and the Friedrike Schumacher, one uncle was the composer Robert Fuchs . From 1914 to 1916 she trained as a people's nurse in the "United Specialized Courses for People's Care" founded by Ilse Arlt and then worked in a barrack camp in Gmünd . She was then employed in the youth welfare office of the city of Vienna, in a recreation camp for war victims in Pottendorf and again in the youth welfare office, and in 1923 became welfare director in Ottakring . She was influenced by the psychoanalyst August Aichhorn and tried to put his theories into practice.

Between 1930 and 1936 she studied with Paul Pisk and Ferdinand Rebay at the Vienna Music Academy . Her later compositional work includes piano songs, chamber music and choral orchestral works, as well as the sketches for an opera.

After the end of the war, Dworschak became an influential welfare worker and therapist in the care of the neglected and, together with Friedl Aufreiter and Aichhorn, conducted the course “Introduction to educational counseling” for educational advisers and career counselors, from which the seminar for psychoanalytic educational counseling of the newly founded Viennese psychoanalytical counselors held from 1946 to 1949 Association (WPV) emerged. With Hedwig Bolterauer she built up the WPV's Child Guidance Clinic and became a member of the WPV. In 1949 she founded the Vienna Institute for Educational Aid, where she worked as an educational advisor and therapist for children and adolescents until her retirement in 1962, and taught methods of supervision and case work techniques at a school for social work . What was new about her method was that it was not the parents with their educational difficulties but the child that was the focus of the work.

In 1950, Dworschak and Lambert Bolterauer founded the “August Aichhorn Society”, which aims to spread psychoanalysis topics in public lectures. Dworschak received the title of Federal Welfare Council in 1961 and the title of Professor in 1972 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The neglected man and his helpers . Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1969
  • Village stories from the big city . Vienna: Löcker, 2014

literature

  • Hugo Maier : Dworschak, Rosa , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 154 f.
  • Thomas Aichhorn (ed.): Rosa Dworschak: On the practice and theory of psychoanalytic social work . Vienna: Löcker, 2014 ISBN 978-3-85409-724-2
  • Elke Mühlleitner: Dworschak, Rosa , in: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (Hrsg.): Scientists in and from Austria: Life - Work - Work . Vienna: Böhlau, 2002 ISBN 3-205-99467-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Educational Aid , website
personal data
SURNAME Dworschak, Rosa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dworschak, Rosa Maria Carolina; Dworschak, Rosl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social worker
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Peter im Sulmtal , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1990
Place of death Mödling