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  Fonds Adolf Friedemann

  Signatur: Rorsch AF

  Fonds Adolf Friedemann

  Friedemann, Adolf (1902-1981) [Bestandsbildner] 

  1955-1958. - 2 cm, Deutsch

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  Biographische Notiz:   Adolf Friedemann was born on 26th May 1902. He studied psychology and medicine in Berlin and Jena, finished his medical studies in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1915 and remained there as assistant and resident at the Neurological and Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Freiburg until 1929. His interest in medical pedagogy manifested itself early, leading him to become Deputy to the Chief of the Medico-Pedagogic Counselling Center in 1926. He moved nearby Switzerland in 1930 and was scientific assistant to Prof. R. Staehelin at the University Psychiatric Clinic of Basel, but a position of Senior Resident in the Neurological Division of the Hospital Berlin-Buch combined with a research appointment to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research attracted him to Germany for two years until in 1933 he returned to Switzerland. Here began his lifelong friendship with the psychoanalyst and pioneer in the mental health movement, Heinrich Meng. He worked at the Cantonal Psychiatric Hospital of Bellelay from 1934 to 1949 and acquired there Swiss citizenship.   In 1949 he was called to take charge of the Institute for Mental Hygiene in the bilingual city of Biel. Here he could employ to the full his diagnostic skills in the Rorschach, the Szondi and the Pfister-Heiss Color Pyramid Tests besides others, working principally with young people and adolescents as fitted his inclination. When the first International Rorschach Congress was held in Zürich in 1949 Friedemann was one of the organizers, and at the second in Bern in 1952 he was elected Secretary of the new International Rorschach Society. His old university, Freiburg, gave him a Lectorate for Mental Health and Practical Psychology in 1954 and conferred the title of Professor on him soon thereafter. After he retired from the Institute for Mental Hygiene in 1969 he devoted himself intensively to the development of group therapy on a psychoanalytic basis. From 1970 on he took up lecturing on the Rorschach Test and other subjects at the Swiss University of Freiburg besides medical supervision at the Out-Patient Service of its Institute for Mental Health.   Devoted to the Rorschach Test throughout his professional life, Friedemann became Chairman of the Rorschach Commission of the Swiss Psychological Association, of which he was a founding member, in 1960 and remained in that position until 1975. From 1960 to 1981 he was president of the International Rorschach Society. Friedemann’s publications on the Rorschach include studies on the diagnosis of schizophrenia, on blind diagnosis by means of the test on its comparison with the parallel Behn Rorschach series and the Zulliger Test as well as a number of remarks and notes. (Text from K. W. Bash in Journal of personality assessment vol. 46, 1982, p. 111-112)   Inhaltsangabe:   The small fonds contains some results obtained through a test developed by a certain Mr. Theo Lüdi (L-Test) and through the Z-Test.

  Friedemann, Adolf (1902-1981) [Erwähnte Person] 

  https://swisscollections.ch/Record/991170538911505501 (Katalogeintrag in swisscollections) 

  Akzession: Herkunft: Legacy of Prof. Adolf Friedemann. Received in march 1982. 

  Weitere Findmittel:   Inventory not yet existing 

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