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Sep 20, 1916 Polzela Municipality, Slovenia Died on 18 May 2009 (aged 92)
Swiss psychoanalyst (1916-2009)
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About Paul Parin
- Paul Parin (20 September 1916 – 18 May 2009) was a Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist. He was born in Polzela (German: Heilenstein), near Celje, Slovenia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a family of assimilated Jews.
- He studied medicine in Zagreb, Graz and Zürich.
- In Zürich, he met Goldy Matthèy-Guenet who became his wife.
- At the end of World War II, the two travelled to the liberated zone in south-east Slovenia, where they volunteered as physicians in the units of the partisan resistance.
- After the War, the two moved back to Zürich, where Parin founded a psychoanalytic seminar.
- In the 1950s, he travelled to Africa with his wife and Fritz Morgenthaler.
- Together with George Devereux, Parin became the co-founder of the ethnopsychoanalysis. In 1992, he received the prestigious Erich Fried Prize for his literary achievements. He died in Zürich, aged 92.
