Rudolf Ekstein

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Rudolf Ekstein (born February 9, 1912 in Vienna , † March 18, 2005 in Los Angeles ) was an American psychoanalyst and child psychologist of Austrian descent. His area of ​​interest was the combination of psychoanalysis , psychotherapy and education .

Life

Document of the research correspondence with Rudolf Ekstein and Bruno Bettelheim

Ekstein studied psychology, philosophy and history at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1937. His teachers there included Anna Freud , Willi Hoffer and August Aichhorn . In 1937 he wrote under a pseudonym in a magazine of the Kumminist Youth Association the article "Sexualpolitik des Faschismus", based on Wilhelm Reich , https://www.hagalil.com/sexualpolitik-des-faschismus/ and was therefore excluded from the Communist Youth Association because of "Trotskyism" https://www.hagalil.com/2020/06/sexualpolitik-des-faschismus/ After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, he emigrated to London in August and from there to the USA in December. Ekstein was a Jew. In Boston he was trained as a psychoanalyst at the Social Works School . He did his training analysis with Eduard Hitschmann . He also obtained his second doctorate there in the philosophy of psychoanalysis.

He then worked from 1947 to 1957 at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka , Kansas, and from 1957 to 1976 at the Reiss Davis Child Study Center in Los Angeles. He earned his international reputation through his work with psychotic, autistic children and children with borderline syndrome . The application of psychoanalysis in education and teaching was also a focus of his work.

Ekstein's grave in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall

Between 1960 and 1996 he came to Vienna regularly. There he taught as a visiting professor at the university. His grave is located in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall and is one of the honorary grave sites of the City of Vienna.

Awards

  • Honorary doctorate in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1995.
  • The Center for Psychagogics and Integrative Care Forms in Vienna is named after him as the Rudolf Ekstein Center .
  • Golden City Hall Man of the City of Vienna 1999.
  • Establishment of the Rudolf Ekstein Collection.
  • Rudolf Ekstein Symposium From Learning for Love to Love of Learning on July 6, 2006 at the University of Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

  • A refugee teacher looks on democratic and fascist education. 1939.
  • From learning for love to love of learning. 1969.
  • Borderline children. E. Reinhardt, Munich / Basel 1973.
  • Karl Bühler's “Sprachtheorie” in psychoanalytic perspective: from monologue to dialogue to pluralogue. 1988.
  • The language of psychotherapy. Benjamin, Amsterdam 1989.

literature

  • Jörg Wiesse: Rudolf Ekstein and psychoanalysis . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994.
  • Roland Kaufhold : Pioneers of psychoanalytical education: Bruno Bettelheim, Rudolf Ekstein, Ernst Federn and Siegfried Bernfeld . In: Psychosocial . tape 53 , 1993, pp. 9-113 .
  • Roland Kaufhold: Bettelheim, Ekstein, Federn . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2001.
  • Dorothea Oberlaender: Rudolf Ekstein, Life and Work: Continuity and Change in the Life Story of a Psychoanalyst . Geyer Edition, Vienna 1985.
  • Roland Kaufhold : "Sexual Policy of Fascism" (May 1937). An early document of the political resistance of a budding psychoanalyst., Hagalil, June 17, 2020: https://www.hagalil.com/2020/06/sexualpolitik-des-faschismus/

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at : A life for mentally ill children - Rudolf Ekstein, psychoanalyst and social democrat  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oe1.orf.at  
  2. ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Graves dedicated to honor in the fire hall Simmering cemetery (PDF 2016), accessed on March 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Ekstein, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist, psychoanalyst and publicist of Austrian descent
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2005
Place of death los Angeles