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Nov 24, 1922 Liperi, Eastern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland Died on 18 Aug 2008 (aged 85)
Finnish philosopher
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About Martti Olavi Siirala
- Martti Olavi Siirala (November 24, 1922 – August 18, 2008) was a Finnish psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher.
- He was inspired by psychoanalysis, the anthropological medicine of Viktor von Weizsäcker and the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
- The outcome was a unique synthesis theory that Siirala called social pathology. Siirala studied psychoanalysis in Zürich under the guidance of Medard Boss and Gustav Bally.
- There he met also colleague and lifetime friend Gaetano Benedetti.
- Siirala was also the founding member of Finnish Therapeia-foundation, an alternative psychoanalytic training institute established 1958.
- Especially in the early years Siirala was actually the principal of the foundation, both at a theoretical and practical level.
