Paul Parin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Parin

Swiss psychoanalyst (1916-2009)

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1916

Place of Birth: Polzela Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 18-May-2009

Profession: physician writer, anthropologist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.