Vienna Psychoanalytic Association

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The Vienna Psychoanalytical Association (WPV) was the first psychoanalytic organization in the world. It was founded on April 15, 1908 in Vienna and was a founding member of the International Psychoanalytic Association . Today the WPV is the largest psychoanalytic group in Austria .

history

The waiting room in a later furnishing

In October 1902 Sigmund Freud sent postcards to Alfred Adler , Max Kahane , Rudolf Reitler and Wilhelm Stekel and invited them to discuss his work in his house at Berggasse 19 . They met in the waiting room of Freud's practice, as it was equipped with a long table. The sessions of this first psychoanalytical scientific society were named Psychological Wednesday Society by the participants . Stekel, who wrote for the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , published reports on the meetings in the feature section of its Sunday edition. The 22-year-old industrial worker Otto Rank , who received a scholarship from Freud to obtain university entrance qualifications, presented himself to the group in 1906 with his manuscript “The Artist: Approaches to a Sexual Psychology” and from autumn 1906 he kept the minutes of the meeting as a paid secretary . He held this position until 1915. Among the members of this first phase until 1908 were Max Graf with a lecture on poet psychology, the later publisher Hugo Heller , Alfred Meisl, Paul Federn (from 1903), Eduard Hitschmann (1905), Isidor Sadger (1906), Guido Brecher (1907) , Maximilian Steiner and Fritz Wittels (1906). In the beginning they treated themselves to a sociable evening at Christmas time.

From this Wednesday Society, the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association emerged in 1908, which is why it is sometimes referred to as the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society . The official establishment took place on October 12, 1910.

In 1910, the doctor Margarete Hilferding became the first woman to be elected to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association. In 1922 Anna Freud was accepted into the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association, her introductory lecture was entitled Beat Fantasy and Day Dream , a case study on the father-daughter relationship based on her own experience. In 1925 Grete Bibring-Lehner became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association.

Freud had reservations about the consequences associated with the professionalization of a new direction of therapy - such as the emergence of political issues and monetary benefits. The association was dissolved in 1938 after the Nazis invaded Austria. At that time the association had 68 members. Most of them were able to flee abroad. Many of them became influential personalities for the development of psychiatry , psychology , social work and psychosomatic medicine in their new places of work .

Otto Isakower , a member of the WPV, fled into exile in Great Britain in 1938, as did Sigmund and Anna Freud. Isakower worked in Great Britain together with Anna Freud on the complete edition of the "Collected Works" of her father Sigmund Freud.

The association was re-established on April 10, 1946. Soon afterwards it was again a member of the “International Psychoanalytic Association” and was able to continue teaching.

In cooperation with the University Clinic for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Vienna General Hospital , the WPV organizes the Anna Freud Lecture in Vienna every year .

Chairperson

literature

  • Thomas Aichhorn: Who was August Aichhorn ? Letters, documents, unpublished works. Löcker & Wögenstein, Vienna 1976.
  • Thomas Aichhorn (ed.): On the history of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association. 1938-1949 (= Lucifer-Amor. Issue 31-32, ISSN  0933-3347 ). Volume 1-2. Edition Diskord, Tübingen 2003.
  • Ernst Federn : The emigration of Sigmund and Anna Freud. A case study. In: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.): Displaced reason. Emigration and exile of Austrian science. Volume 2: International Symposium. October 19-23, 1987 in Vienna. Jugend und Volk, Vienna et al. 1988, ISBN 3-224-16525-1 , pp. 247-250.
  • Hubert Grabitz: Freud under the record. On the discussions in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association WPV. Simon Verlag für Bibliothekswissen, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945610-23-7 .
  • Wolfgang Huber: Psychoanalysis in Austria since 1933 (= publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of Social Sciences 2, ZDB -ID 1193393-8 ). Geyer Edition, Vienna et al. 1977.
  • Wolfgang Huber (Ed.): Contributions to the history of psychoanalysis in Austria (= publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of Social Sciences 4). Geyer Edition, Vienna ao 1978.
  • Ernest Jones : The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. Volume 2. Transl. Katherine Jones and Gertrud Meili-Doretzki. Huber, Bern 1962
  • Roland Kaufhold : Bettelheim, Ekstein, Federn. Impulses for the psychoanalytical-pedagogical movement (= psychoanalytical pedagogy 12). Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2001, ISBN 3-89806-069-1 .
  • Roland Kaufhold: Biographical continuity, emigration and psychoanalytical-pedagogical engagement. Laudation for Ernst Federn on his 90th birthday. In: psychosocial. Vol. 28, No. 100, Issue 2, 2005, ISSN  0171-3434 , pp. 75-83.
  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association from 1902 - 1938. Edition diskord, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3 .
  • Hermann Nunberg , Ernst Federn (Ed.): Protocols of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association. 4 volumes. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main (new edition. Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89806-598-6 );
  • Richard F. Sterba : Memories of a Viennese psychoanalyst (= Fischer 7354 Fischer-Wissenschaft ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-27354-4 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Berggasse 19  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Ernest Jones: The life and work of Sigmund Freud , Volume 2, 1962, pp. 20-23
  2. Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis , 1992, p. 250
  3. Ernest Jones: The life and work of Sigmund Freud , Volume 2, 1962, p. 404
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  5. Organization | Vienna Psychoanalytic Association. Retrieved January 1, 2018 .