Pavel Fonda (born September 22, 1942), is a

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 ...

psychotherapist Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome pro ...

and a notable member of

Slovene minority in Italy Slovene minority in Italy ( it, Minoranza slovena in Italia, sl, Slovenska manjšina v Italiji), also known as Slovenes in Italy ( it, Sloveni in Italia, sl, Slovenci v Italiji) is the name given to Italian citizens who belong to the autochthon ...

.Every nation has to reconcile with itself first, only then we can face each other
(in Slovene: ''Vsak narod se mora najprej spraviti sam s seboj, šele nato je možno soočanje''),

Primorski dnevnik ''Primorski dnevnik'' ( en, The Littoral Daily), mostly known as ''Primorski'', is a Slovene language daily newspaper published in Trieste, Italy. It is the only Slovene daily in any country other than Slovenia, and one of the three historical dai ...

, 20 June 2009. He was a mayor of

Aurisina Aurisina (until 1923 ''Nabresina'', sl, Nabrežina) is a town in the karst part of the comune of Duino-Aurisina (Slovene: ) near Trieste, Italy, in a region of Slovene minority. It lies 15 kilometres northwest of Trieste, and according to the 200 ...

local community from 1984 to 1985 in the

Province of Trieste The Province of Trieste ( it, Provincia di Trieste, sl, Tržaška pokrajina; fur, provinzia di Triest) was a Provinces of Italy, province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. Its capital was the city of Trieste. It had an are ...

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Life

He was born Servola,

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( sl, Škedenj). After finishing elementary and high school with Slovene as the language of instruction, he studied medicine at the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

. In 1968, he specialized in psychiatry in

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, where he worked for few years at the university.

Work

In 1970, he moved from Milan to Trieste and worked in local hospital. He was also running the

center for mental health. After 1990, he served as an

International Psychoanalytical 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 ...

's trainer for the trainees in psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe and managed (2002-2014) the Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe. In 2014 in Ljubljana he was in the team of founders of the Slovenian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (affiliated to the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Psychology

*2007 ''Psycho-grammes at the Border'' (in Slovene: ''Obmejni psihogrami''). In: Cogoy, Renate; Luisa Accati (eds) (2007) ''The Foibe: An Example of psychopathological reception of history'' (original in German: ''Das Unheimliche in der Geschichte. Die foibe: Beiträge zur Psychopathologie historischer Rezeption''), Trafo-Verlag. Lesničar-Pučko, Tanja (2009
Interview with the authors of the book
''The Foibe: An Example of psychopathological reception of history''. Dnevnik. 21 Februar.

References

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