About Franz Alexander
Franz Gabriel Alexander (Austrian German: [frants ˈɡaːbri̯eːl ˈalɛksandɐ]; born Alexander Ferenc Gábor, Hungarian: [ˈɒlɛksɒndɒr ˈfɛrɛnts ˈɡaːbor]; 22 January 1891 – 8 March 1964) was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. == Life == Alexander was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, in 1891, his father was Bernhard Alexander, a philosopher and literary critic, his nephew was Alfréd Rényi, a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory but mostly in probability theory. Alexander studied in Berlin; there he was part of an influential group of German analysts mentored by Karl Abraham, including Karen Horney and Helene Deutsch, and gathered around the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. In the early 1920s, Oliver Freud (Sigmund Freud's son) was in analysis with Franz Alexander, while Charles Odier, one of the first among French psychoanalysts, was analysed in Berlin by Franz Alexander as well. In 1930, he was invited by Robert Hutchins, then President of the University of Chicago, to become its Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis. Alexander worked there at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where Paul Rosenfels was one of his students. In the 1950s, he was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research. Franz Alexander died in Palm Springs, California in 1964. == Early writings (1923–1943) == Alexander was a prolific writer.
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