Franz Beda Riklin (22 April 1878, in
St. Gallen
, neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach
, twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic)
, website ...
– 4 December 1938, in
Küsnacht
Küsnacht is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
History
Küsnacht is first mentioned in 1188 as ''de Cussenacho''.
Earliest findings of settlement date back to the stone age. There are also findi ...
) was a Swiss
psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...
.
Early in his career, Franz Riklin worked at the
Burghölzli
The ''Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich'' (Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich) is a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. As a research hospital, it is associated with the University of Zürich. It is also called Burghölzli, after th ...
Hospital in
Zurich under
Eugen Bleuler
Paul Eugen Bleuler (; ; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including "schizophrenia", "schizoid", " ...
(b.1857–d.1939), and studied
experimental psychology
Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, in ...
with
Emil Kraepelin
Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (; ; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist.
H. J. Eysenck's ''Encyclopedia of Psychology'' identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychi ...
(1856–1926) and
Gustav Aschaffenburg
Gustav Aschaffenburg (May 23, 1866 – September 2, 1944) was a German psychiatrist born in Zweibrücken.
In 1890 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg with a thesis on delirium tremens. Later he worked as an ...
(b.1866–d.1944) in
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
. Beginning in 1904, he was a physician at the psychiatric clinic in
Rheinau Rheinau may refer to:
*Rheinau, Switzerland, a town in the canton of Zürich
*Rheinau Abbey, in Rheinau, Switzerland
*Rheinau (Baden), a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
*a part of Mannheim, Germany
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. In 1910, Riklin became the first secretary of the
International Psychoanalytic Association
The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) is an association including 12,000 psychoanalysts as members and works with 70 constituent organizations. It was founded in 1910 by Sigmund Freud, from an idea proposed by Sándor Ferenczi.
His ...
(IPA).
Riklin is remembered for his collaboration with
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philo ...
(b.1875–d.1961) on
word association tests. In 1905, the treatise ''Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Assoziationen Gesunder'' was published as a result of their research. Another important work by Riklin is ''Wunscherfüllung und Symbolik im Märchen'' (Wish-Fulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales).
In 1906 Riklin married Sophia Fiechter, a granddaughter of
Karl Gustav Jung
Karl Gustav Jung (7 September 1795 in Mannheim – 12 June 1864 in Basel) was a German-Swiss medical doctor, political activist, professor of Medicine at the University of Basel, administrator and freemason.
Life
Karl Gustav Jung was the ...
, thus a cousin of Carl Jung. They had four children. Their son, Franz Niklaus, became an analytical psychologist and a close associate of his uncle, Jung, whose writings he edited.
[Wilhelm, Hans Rudolf. ''Der Psychiater und Maler Franz Beda Riklin : eine Spurensicherung.'' In: ''Schweizer Monatshefte'', 81 (2001), p. 19–22. doi:10.5169/seals-166499 (in German).]
References
External links
Pierre Janet’s influence on Bleuler’s concept of Schizophreniaby Andrew Moskowitz
by Paul Kugler
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(biographical information)
Swiss psychiatrists
People from St. Gallen (city)
1878 births
1938 deaths
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