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Max Eitingon

Who

Max Eitingon · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Psychoanalyst who organized the first psychoanalytic training institute

When

1881, Mogilev, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1943, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine

Where

Germany · Mandatory Palestine

Biography

Max Eitingon is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychoanalyst who organized the first psychoanalytic training institute

How & why

Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst and close associate of Sigmund Freud who, in 1920, founded and financed the Berlin Psychoanalytic Polyclinic and its training institute, the model for all later systematic psychoanalytic education. Forced out by the Nazis, he emigrated to Jerusalem in 1933 and founded the Palestine Psychoanalytic Institute. He came from a wealthy Russian-Jewish family.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

Contributions & Sources

Psychoanalyst who organized the first psychoanalytic training institute

1881

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology