Yitzchak Zieman
Yitzchak Zelig Zieman (born May 6, 1920 in Riga , Latvia ; † April 2, 2007 ) was a psychoanalyst in New York and, together with Ruth Cohn, founder of the Topic-Centered Interaction (TZI).
Life
Yitzchak Zieman was born on May 6, 1920 in Riga as the eldest of four children and grew up in Līvāni . At the age of ten he joined the Gordonia , a Zionist-socialist youth movement that campaigned for the emigration of European Jews to Palestine.
During the Second World War , after the occupation of Latvia by the Germans, he joined the anti-fascist militia. He later fled to the as yet unoccupied part of Russia and became a Soviet soldier in Stalingrad . By a decree of Stalin he was expelled from the army in 1942 and forced to work in a Soviet gulag . In Kyrgyzstan he worked in an agricultural collective farm. From there he prepared his escape to the west. In addition, he posed as a Pole and fled to Germany via Poland.
In Munich, because of a depression , he underwent psychotherapy with Fritz Riemann , who later became his teaching therapist and mentor.
He later emigrated to America, where he worked as a psychoanalyst in New York. There he met Ruth Cohn in the early 1960s , and together with her developed the topic-centered interaction, a humanistic social therapy in which respect for the other and the democratization of society are of great importance.
Life's work
As the only survivor of a Jewish family from Latvia murdered in the Holocaust , Zieman dealt with the social, psychological and educational roots of the Holocaust. Reconciliation between (non-Jewish) Germans and Jews, and between Palestinians and Israelis, was very important to him.
Zieman became one of the most important representatives and trainers of the TCI . From 1973 to 1999 he led around 150 TZI workshops in New York and in Germany within the framework of the previous institutions of today's Ruth-Cohn-Institut (Workshop-Institute for Living Learning - WILL, WILL-America, WILL-Europa, WILL -International).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Bornebusch: In Memoriam Yitzchak Zieman (PDF; 88 kB)
- ↑ Confrontation with the barbarism of the Nazi regime - an event with Yitzchak Zieman, 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zieman, Yitzchak |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zieman, Yitzchak Zelig; Zieman, Isaac Zelig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian psychoanalyst, co-founder of Topic-Centered Interaction |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga , Latvia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 2007 |