Dorian Feigenbaum

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Dorian Aryeh Feigenbaum (born May 19, 1887 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary; died in 1937) was an Austrian psychoanalyst and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the academic journal The Psychoanalytic Quarterly .

He was graduated in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1914 and studied at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research (German : Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie) in Munich, under the pioneering psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin. [1]

Feigenbaum served as the director of Esrath Nashim [2] (The Hospital for the Mental Diseases) in Jerusalem and as psychiatric consultant to the Government of Palestine [1] until he was fired by the hospital board in 1924. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "In Memoriam Dorian Feigenbaum, M.D. 1887-1937". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 6 (1): 1–3. 1937. doi:10.1080/21674086.1937.11925305 . Retrieved October 20, 2022.
  2. 1 2 Falk, Avner (2020). Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon . Brill Rodopi Leiden. p. 15. doi:10.1163/9789004367784. ISBN   9789004425422. OCLC   1158896637. S2CID   186853632 . Retrieved October 21, 2022.