Yrjö Kulovesi

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Yrjö Kulovesi (1924)

Yrjö Sakarias Kulovesi , until 1906 Ringbom (born December 13, 1887 in Tampere , Grand Duchy of Finland , Russian Empire ; † September 29, 1943 in Tampere, Finland ), was a Finnish school doctor , psychoanalyst , member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association and co-founder of the Scandinavian Working Group Psychoanalyst.

Life

Yrjö Kulovesi was born in Tampere as the son of a men's tailor. He studied medicine in Helsinki and Göttingen. In 1916 he received his doctorate in medicine in Finland. When the civil war in Finland ended in 1919, Kulovesi became president of a medical care committee in Tampere and took care of the city's health care system. Tampere was badly affected by the Finnish civil war. Kulovesi was also a member of the Tampere City Council and worked as a school doctor at the schools in Tampere. He was very interested in child and popular education.

Kulovesi was known for the scarce literature on psychoanalysis in Finland and therefore traveled to Vienna for the first time in 1924. Here he underwent a month-long analysis by Eduard Hitschmann . Another trip to Vienna followed with the intention of being able to do an analysis with Sigmund Freud . However, this referred him to Paul Federn . Kulovesi was initially a guest of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association (WPV). On December 9, 1925, he gave a lecture on the subject of "The importance of the space factor for dream interpretation." He published several papers in the international journal for psychoanalysis. In 1931 he became a full member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association.

In 1931 Yrjö Kulovesi founded a working group of Scandinavian psychoanalysts together with Alfhild Tamm and Harald Schjelderup. This working group was officially recognized in 1934 at the 13th International Psychoanalytic Congress in Lucerne. Kulovesi wrote the first Finnish textbook on psychoanalysis Psykoanalyysi . In 1936 he received the license to teach as a training analyst.

Kulovesi was married to Signe Bengs, a nurse. He also made psychoanalysis known in literary circles in Finland. In the years between 1925 and 1939, about twenty publications by Kulovesis appeared in the Finnish medical journal “Duodecim”.

Fonts (selection)

  • The space factor in dream interpretation. In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Volume 13, 1927, pp. 56-58.
  • How the tic developed. In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Volume 15, 1929, pp. 82-95.
  • Psykoanalyysi. Helsinki 1933.
  • A contribution to the psychoanalysis of the epileptic seizure. In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Volume 24, 1939, pp. 446-447.

literature

  • Nigel Moore: Psychoanalysis in Scandinavia. In: D. Eicke (Ed.): The psychology of the 20th century, II. Freud and the consequences (1). Zurich 1977, pp. 1287-1314.
  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938. Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1992, pp. 194-195.

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personal data
SURNAME Kulovesi, Yrjö
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kulovesi, Yrjö Sakarias (full name); Ringbom, Yrjö Sakarias (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish school doctor and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Tampere
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1943
Place of death Tampere