Paul Parin

Paul Parin (20 September 1916 – 18 May 2009) was a Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist.

Paul Parin

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 Yugoslavia, where they volunteered as physicians in the units of the partisan resistance.[1] 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.

References
  1. Paul Parin. Es ist Krieg und wir gehen hin. Bei den jugoslawischen Partisanen. Rowohlt, Berlin 1991 and EVA, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-434-50417-6.
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