Paul Parin (20 September 1916 – 18 May 2009) was a

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and

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. He was born in

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(german: Heilenstein), near

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, Slovenia, then part of the

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, into a family of

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. He studied medicine in

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and

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. In Zürich, he met Goldy Matthèy-Guenet who became his wife. At the end of World War II, the two travelled to the liberated zone in south-east

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, where they volunteered as physicians in the units of the

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resistance.Paul Parin. ''Es ist Krieg und wir gehen hin. Bei den jugoslawischen Partisanen.'' Rowohlt, Berlin 1991 and EVA, Hamburg 1997, . After the War, the two moved back to Zürich, where Parin founded a psychoanalytic seminar. In the 1950s, he travelled to Africa with his wife and Fritz Morgenthaler. Together with

George Devereux Georges Devereux (born György Dobó; 13 September 1908 – 28 May 1985) was a Hungarian- French ethnologist and psychoanalyst, often considered the founder of ethnopsychiatry.

, Parin became the co-founder of the ethnopsychoanalysis. In 1992, he received the prestigious

Erich Fried Prize The Erich Fried Prize (german: Erich-Fried-Preis) is a literary prize in honour of the Austrian poet Erich Fried, and is awarded annually by the for Literature and Language, based in Vienna. The value of the prize, endowed by the office of the Chan ...

for his literary achievements. He died in Zürich, aged 92.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Parin, Paul 1916 births 2009 deaths Swiss psychoanalysts Swiss ethnologists Swiss medical writers Yugoslav emigrants to Switzerland People from the Municipality of Polzela

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