Stjepan Betlheim

Stjepan Betlheim in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Outpatient Clinic in 1922 (standing, 2nd from the right).
Photo: Ludwig Gutmann

Wagner-Jauregg's medical team in
Vienna in 1927.
Stjepan Betlheim in the third row, third from the left.

Stjepan Betlheim (born July 22, 1898 in Zagreb , Austria-Hungary ; died September 24, 1970 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Stjepan Betlheim was born into a Jewish family in Zagreb, which was part of Hungary at the time . He studied medicine in Graz and Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1922. In Vienna he worked for Julius Wagner-Jauregg , began an analysis with Paul Schilder and worked with Heinz Hartmann . The training analyzes he had at Sandor Rado , the control analyzes in Karen Horney and Helene German .

With Nikola Sugar (1897–1945) and Hugo Klajn (1894–1981) he built a psychoanalytic group in Yugoslavia , which lasted until the occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941, but which did not (yet) receive the consecration of the International Psychoanalytic Association . During World War II , he fled to Bosnia and participated in the Yugoslav resistance against the Germans, Hungarians and Italians.

After the war he became a lecturer at the Neurological-Psychiatric University Clinic in Zagreb . He became a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1952 and founded the Yugoslav national organization in 1968. Betlheim further developed group therapy for sexual disorders .

Honors

The Croatian Post honored him with a stamp in 1998.

Fonts (selection)

• with Heinz Hartmann: About false reactions in Korsakoff's psychosis , in: Archive for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases 1924, 72, pp. 278–286
• Psihijatrija , 1959
• Neuroze i njihovo lečenje , 1963
• O govornim omaškama u Korsakovljevoj psihozi , 1989
• Snovi u psihoterapiji , 1993
• Radovi, pisma, dokumenti: 1898–1970 , 2006

literature

• Betlheim, Stjepan , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation from French. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , p. 89
• Uwe Henrik Peters : Psychiatry in exile: the emigration of dynamic psychiatry from Germany 1933–1939 , Kupka, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-926567-04-X .
• Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 , Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Stjepan Betlheim in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Eduard Klain: The development of group psychotherapy in Yugoslavia , in: Group, Volume 9, Number 4, 51–54

Individual evidence

1. ↑ stamp on Colnect