Fritz Morgenthaler (July 19, 1919 - October 26, 1984) was a

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psychoanalyst, physician and

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. Morgenthaler was along with George Devereux one of the founders of ethnopsychoanalysis.

Life

Fritz Morgenthaler was the son of the Swiss painter Ernst Morgenthaler and his wife Sasha Morgenthaler. He studied medicine at the University of Zurich and got his degree in 1945. His doctoral thesis, ''Untersuchungen über die Phänomenologie des Fussohlenreflexes beim Gesunde'', was published in 1948.''Untersuchungen über die Phänomenologie des Fussohlenreflexes beim Gesunde'', Zürich : Orell Füssli, 1948. While he was working at a neurological hospital in Zurich he trained as a psychoanalyst with Rudolf Brunn. Together with his wife Ruth, and

Paul Parin Paul Parin (20 September 1916 – 18 May 2009) was a Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist. He was born in Polzela (german: Heilenstein), near Celje, Slovenia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a family of assimilated Jews. He ...

and his wife Goldy Parin-Matthèy he undertook expeditions to

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and they developed the concept of ethnopsychoanalysis.

Works

* (with Paul Parin and Goldy Parin-Matthèy) ''Die Weissen denken zuviel : psychoanalytische Untersuchungen bei den Dogon in Westafrika'', Zürich: Atlantis, 1963. * ''Technik : zur Dialektik der psychoanalytischen Praxis'', 1978 * (with Paul Parin and Goldy Parin-Matthèy) ''Fear thy neighbor as thyself: psychoanalysis and society among the Anyi of West Africa''. Translated by Patricia Klamerth. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1980. * (with Florence Weiss and Marco Morgenthaler) ''Gespräche am sterbenden Fluss : Ethnopsychoanalyse bei den Iatmul in Papua Neuguinea'', 1984. * (with Paul Parin et al.) ''Der Traum : Fragmente zur Theorie und Technik der Traumdeutung'', 1986 * ''Homosexuality, heterosexuality, perversion'', Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press: Distributed by Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988. With an introduction by Werner Muensterberger. Translated from the German by Andreas Aebi. Edited by Paul Moor.

References

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