Weiss | Edward

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Type of entity

Person

Authorized form of name

Weiss | Edward

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

      Other form(s) of name

      • Weiss| Edoardo | former name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1889--1970-12-14

      History

      Edoardo Weiss was born in Trieste, Italy in 1889. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1914. In Vienna, he met Freud who suggested an analysis with Paul Federn. During the First World War, Weiss served as a physician in the Austrian Army. Weiss became the first psychoanalyst to practise in Italy after the First World War. In 1931 he established a group in Rome, which would later become the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. In 1939 he fled fascism, arriving to work at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, USA. Two years later he joined the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He worked on psychosomatic medicine and remained a follower of Paul Federn. He died on 14 Dec 1970.

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      Functions, occupations and activities

      Psychoanalyst

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      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

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      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      GB BPASA AR Weiss E

      Institution identifier

      British Psychoanalytical Society Archive (ISDIAH, 2008)

      Rules and/or conventions used

      ISO 8601-1:2019, Date and time - Representations for information interchange.
      National Council on Archives - Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
      International Council on Archives - International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings (ISDIAH), 2008.

      Status

      Revised

      Level of detail

      Partial

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Revised 2024-04-04

      Language(s)

      • English

      Script(s)

      • Latin

      Sources

      Maintenance notes

      Revised by Ewan O'Neill