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Medard Boss (1903–1990) began his medical education in his homeland, Switzerland, but had his introduction to neurological and psychiatric medicine in 1924 in Paris at the Saltpetrière. In 1925 he began his own analysis with Freud while studying at the University of Vienna and later carried out his education with Ernest Jones in London and with Kurt Goldstein, Hans Sachs, and Karen Horney in Berlin. He became an assistant at the psychiatric polyclinic in Zurich and then the director of a private sanitarium, Schloss Kronau. In his private practice during this time he concentrated his work on schizophrenic patients. In 1936, he was admitted into the medical faculty in the University of Zurich, and in 1954 the University named him Titularprofessor of psychiatric medicine.
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Scott, C.E. (2002). Medard Boss. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology World-Wide. Analecta Husserliana, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0473-2_76
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