Max eitingon biography

Max Eitingon (26 June 1881 – 30 July 1943) was a.
Max Eitingon (1881-1943) was born into a Jewish family in Western Russia where political instability gave rise to pogroms that forced his.
Max Eitingon, a medical doctor, was born in Mohilev, Russia, in 1881 and died in Jerusalem on July 3, 1943.

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Eitingon, Max

EITINGON, MAX (1881–1943), psychoanalyst. Born in Mohilev, Russia, Eitingon was raised in Leipzig, Germany, where his parents settled. He studied philosophy, first in Heidelberg and then in Marburg, where he was a pupil of Hermann *Cohen. However, he subsequently moved to the study of medicine, and qualified as a physician at Zurich in 1909. There he joined the group of psychiatrists headed by Bleuler and Jung, who tried to give Sigmund *Freud's theories a broader basis by applying them to psychiatric diseases. While still a medical student in 1907, Eitingon went to Vienna, where (as Freud himself disclosed) he was the first foreign visitor to study psychoanalysis at its source. Later he settled in Berlin. During World War i he served in the Austrian medical corps, and his encounter with war neuroses induced him to establish clinics for psychoanalytical treatment. In 1919 he was appointed a member of the so-called "Committee" – a small inner circle at the heart of the psychoanalytical movement. In 1920, together with Karl *Abraham and E. Simmel, he founded the Be

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Eitingon, Max (1881-1943)

Max Eitingon, a medical doctor, was born in Mohilev, Russia, in 1881 and died in Jerusalem on July 3, 1943. He was cofounder and presidentof the Berlin Psychoanalytic Polyclinic (1920-1933), director and patron of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag (1921-1930), president of the International Psychoanalytic Association (1927-1933), founder and president of the International Training Committee (1925-1943), and founder of the Palestine Psychoanalytic Society (1934) and of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Israel.

Eitingon was born into an orthodox Jewish family. His father, Chaim Eitingon, had a large successful fur business, with a store in New York City. Max was the last of his four children (the others where Esther, Fanny, and Vladimir). Around 1893, when he was twelve, the family moved to Leipzig, Germany, where Chaim became a generous patron to the Jewish community, financing the construction of a hospital and a synagogue. In 1929 he was ruined by the stock market crash and died in Leipzig in 1932.

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Max Eitingon

Belarusian-German medical doctor

Max Eitingon (26 June 1881 – 30 July 1943) was a German medical doctor and psychoanalyst, instrumental in establishing the institutional parameters of psychoanalytic education and training.^[1]

Eitingon was cofounder and president from 1920 to 1933 of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Polyclinic. He was also director and patron of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag (1921–1930), president of the International Psychoanalytic Association (1927–1933), founder and president of the International Training Committee (1925–1943), and founder of the Palestine Psychoanalytic Society (1934) and of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Israel.^[2]

Life

Eitingon was born to a wealthy Lithuanian Jewish family in Mohilev, Imperial Russia, the son of a successful fur trader Chaim Eitingon. When he was twelve the family moved to Leipzig. He studied at private school and at universities in Halle, Heidelberg, and Marburg — studying philosophy under the neo-KantianHermann Cohen — before studying medicine at the University