Paul Parin was a Swiss psychoanalyst, author

Author

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 and ethnologist.

He was born in Polzela

Polzela

Polzela is a settlement and municipality in Slovenia. It lies on the left bank of the Savinja River extending into the Ložnica Hills to the north. The area was part of the traditional region of Lower Styria...

 , near Celje

Celje

Celje is a typical Central European town and the third largest town in Slovenia. It is a regional center of Lower Styria and the administrative seat of the Urban Municipality of Celje . The town of Celje is located under Upper Celje Castle at the confluence of the Savinja, Ložnica, and Voglajna...

, Slovenia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a family of assimilated Jews. He studied medicine in Zagreb

Zagreb

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, Graz

Graz

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 and Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

. 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

Fritz Morgenthaler

Fritz Morgenthaler was a Swiss psychoanalist, physician and painter. Morgenthaler was along with George Devereux one of the founders of ethnopsychoanalysis.-Life:...

. Together with George Devereux

George Devereux

George Devereux was an American - French ethnologist and psychoanalyst, born in a Jewish family from Banat. He was one of the pioneers of ethnopsychoanalysis and ethnopsychiatry.-Biography:...

, Parin became the co-founder of the ethnopsychoanalysis.

In 1992, he received the prestigious Erich Fried Prize

Erich Fried Prize

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for his literary achievements.

He died in Zürich, aged 92.