Silvano Arieti

Silvano Arieti (born June 28, 1914 in Pisa ; died July 8, 1981 in New York ) was an Italian-American psychiatrist , psychoanalyst and university professor . He was best known for his contributions to schizophrenia .

Life

Silvano Arieti was born in Pisa into a Jewish family; his father and grandfather were both doctors. In Pisa he attended school. After the Maturità studied at the University of Pisa and graduated in medicine in 1938 with a doctorate . Increasing discrimination due to anti-Jewish racial laws prompted Arieti to migrate to the United States .

At the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital he received a scholarship and was able to take up a position as an assistant doctor at the Pilgrim State Hospital in West Brentwood in 1941 . There he first worked as a neurologist, but from the early 1950s he was interested in psychiatry . From 1941 he completed training as a psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute .

From 1953 Arieti was assistant professor at the State University of New York ( New York Medical College ) until he took over the chair of clinical psychiatry in 1961.

Arieti published the multi-volume standard work American Handbook of Psychiatry since 1959. His treatise Interpretation of Schizophrenia (1955) won the 1975 National Book Award in Science . Arieti's scientific work is mainly concerned with schizophrenia. He was intermittent training director and president of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society . He has also edited several journals and served as President of the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis .

Towards the end of his life, Arieti wrote several works for a wider readership. With his son James he published a work on love and attachment Love can be found (1977). In Abraham and the Contemporary Mind (1981) he turned to Jewish topics.

The novel The Parnas, A scene from the Holocaust (1979) tells the story of the murder of the Jewish community president Abramo Giuseppe Pardo Roques in Pisa in 1944 by German soldiers. Pardo Roques and Arieti were acquainted in Pisa.

Arieti last lived in Manhattan (New York City) with his wife Marianne . The couple had two sons, classical philologist James Arieti and environmental researcher David Arieti .

Works

• Interpretation of schizophrenia . Brunner, New York 1955.
• American handbook of psychiatry . Basic Books, New York 1955-1966.
• The intrapsychic self feeling, cognition and creativity in health and mental illness . Basic Books, New York 1967.
• The Will To Be Human . Quadrangle Books [German will to humanity Stuttgart: Klett 1976], New York 1972.
• Creativity The magic synthesis . Basic Books, New York 1976.
• S. Arieti and James Arieti: Love can be found A guide to the most desired and most elusive emotion . Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York 1977.
• S. Arieti and with J Bemporad: Severe and Mild Depression The psychotherapeutic approach . Basic Books, New York 1978. [German: S Arieti, J Bemporad: Depression, clinical picture, development, dynamics and psychotherapeutic treatment Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1983]
• On Schizophrenia, Phobias, Depression, Psychotherapy, and the Farther Shores of Psychiatry Selected Papers of Silvano Arieti . Brunner & Mazel, New York 1978.
• Understanding and helping the schizophrenic . Basis Books, New York 1979. [Dtsch: Schizophrenia Causes, Course, Therapy Help for Sufferers Munich: Pieper 1985]
• The Parnas, A scene from the Holocaust . Paul Dry Books, Philadelphia 1979.
• Abraham and the Contemporary Mind . Basic Books, New York 1981.

literature

• Robin Pape, Burkhart Brückner (2015): Arieti, Silvano. Accessed January 1, 2018 (German). 
• Josh Barbanel: Silvano Arieti, Psychoanalyst and Writer on Schizophrenia . In: The New York Times . August 10, 1981, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 1, 2018]).