Rudolf Reitler

Rudolf Reitler (born January 3, 1865 in Vienna ; † March 26, 1917 ibid) was an Austrian doctor, psychoanalyst and founding member of the Psychological Wednesday Society in Vienna.

Life

Rudolf Reitler came from a wealthy Roman Catholic bourgeois family in Vienna. His father, Marzellin Adalbert Reitler, was a writer and railway official. Marzellin Adalbert Reitler published a series of papers on the rationalization of the railway system, taking into account the "social question". The young Rudolf Reitler attended the kk Akademisches Gymnasium in Vienna. In 1883 he passed his high school diploma. He then studied medicine at the University of Vienna and graduated with success in 1889. During his studies he attended lectures by Sigmund Freud . Rudolf Reitler belonged with Wilhelm Stekel , Alfred Adler and Max Kahaneto the founding members of the Psychological Wednesday Society, after he had been invited by Sigmund Freud with a postcard to a first discussion round in 1902, from which the Wednesday Society subsequently developed. After Sigmund Freud, Rudolf Reitler was the first to practice psychoanalysis. Reitler practiced in Baden near Vienna. At the turn of the century he opened an additional practice in the 1st district of Vienna, where he also ran the “Thermal-Curanstalt”. Reitler offered a "partial dry hot air treatment" according to the "Dr. Reitler ”. The uncertain success of this treatment made him resort to psychoanalysis. In the years between 1910 and 1914 Reitler published several small articles and reviews in the Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse.

Rudolf Reitler regularly took part in the evenings of the Psychological Wednesday Society (later: Vienna Psychoanalytical Association). On March 2, 1910, he gave a lecture on the "History of the Development of Neurosis". Reitler presented a "family tree of neuroses" that he had sketched himself.

Due to a serious illness, Reitler had to retire from all offices in 1914. He died in 1917. In the obituary of the International Journal for Medical Psychoanalysis, he was described as a doctor with musical, graphic and photographic talents, who was able to observe astutely. His modesty and his aversion to pushing ahead and chasing success prevented the full meaning of his personality from coming into its own. In the obituary, Reitler was described as one of the first and most important pioneers of psychoanalysis who deserved a place in history.

Publications

• Thermal-Curanstalt , Baden 1900.
• Head of the Wiener Psychoanalytischen Verein (Ed.): Discussion of the Wiener Psychoanalytischen Verein: About suicide, especially the student suicide , with contributions from Alfred Adler, Prof. Sigmund Freud, Dr. JK Friedjung , Dr. Karl Molitor, Dr. Rudolf Reitler, Dr. I. Sadger , Dr. W. Stekel, Unus multorum, published by JF Hermann Wiesbaden 1910, contribution by Rudolf Reitler pp. 19-23. Digitized
• Critical remarks on Dr. Adler's doctrine of the "male protest ," Zentralblatt 1910 / 11,1: 580-586.
• Zur Eye Symbolik, International Journal for Medical Psychoanalysis 1913.1: 158–161.

literature

• Elke Mühlleitner (with the assistance of Johannes Reichmayr ): Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 , edition diskord Tübingen 1992, pp. 266–268.
• Almuth Bruder-Bezzel: History of Individual Psychology , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1999, p. 32.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elke Mühlleitner (with the collaboration of Johannes Reichmayr ): Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 , edition diskord Tübingen 1992, p. 266.
2. ^ Hermann Nunberg and Ernst Federn (eds.): Protocols of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association , Volume II, 1908–1910, Fischer Frankfurt 1967, pp. 395–405.

Web links

• psyalpha: Rudolf Reitler , accessed on November 5, 2018.