Fritz Morgenthaler (; July 19, 1919 – October 26, 1984) was a Swiss

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, physician, and

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. Morgenthaler was, along 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.

, one of the founders of ethnopsychoanalysis.

Life

Fritz Morgenthaler was born in

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. He was the son of the Swiss painter Ernst Morgenthaler and his wife Sasha Morgenthaler. He studied medicine at the

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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 (), near Celje, Slovenia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a family of assimilated Jews. He studied medicin ...

and his wife Goldy Parin-Matthèy he undertook expeditions to

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and they developed the concept of ethnopsychoanalysis. He died in

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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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