Max Eitingon
Max Eitingon · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychoanalyst who organized the first psychoanalytic training institute
1881, Mogilev, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1943, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Germany · Mandatory Palestine
Max Eitingon is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychoanalyst who organized the first psychoanalytic training institute
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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Psychoanalyst who organized the first psychoanalytic training institute
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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