Paul Gartner

* Szelepcsény, August 3, 1900 – † Budapest, March 6, 1975 / neurologist ; ; He began his medical studies in 1918 at the University of Budapest. He participated in the organization of the Free Trade Union of Hungarian Doctors, and in 1919 he was expelled from the university for his student movement activities. He continued his studies at the German University in Prague (1920–1923), and obtained a diploma at the University of Pécs (1925). In 1925–1926 he was a nurse at the Nagykálló mental institution, then an assistant physician, and in 1926–1933 he was an intern, assistant, and later an assistant physician at the Szabolcs Street Hospital in Budapest. He was a mental health expert in the trial of Szilveszter Matuska, the perpetrator of the Biatorbágy assassination. He was dismissed in 1933 for his labor movement activities. From 1936 to 1939, he became the chief physician of the director of the Schwartzer Institute in Budapest. He also treated Attila József and the playwright Dezső Szomory. During World War II, he was a respiratory physician as a labor serviceman. At the end of World War II, he was appointed chief physician of the National Mental Observatory. In 1946, he was qualified as a private teacher. From 1946, he was an assistant physician at the Korányi Hospital in Alsóerdősori, later acting chief physician, and from 1950 to 1970, he was a department head. In the meantime, he was a member of the National Assembly in 1946 and vice president of the Medical Health Trade Union (1946–1948). Before his death, he founded an award (Gartner Award), which is awarded annually on August 3. He mainly dealt with social psychology, practical neurology and mental health problems. He achieved fundamentally new results in the field of psychoanalytic and depth psychology treatment of mental illnesses, his depth psychology observations on suicide are particularly valuable. He was one of the first users of hypnosis and suggestion in Hungary. As a psychoanalyst, he contributed to the writing of Szirmai Rezső's work Fascist Souls (1946). He accompanied the journalist to the prison where the Arrow Cross war criminals, including Ferenc Szálasi, were held. The book was written based on these conversations173. He translated W. Stekel's work Message to Mothers. His daughter is the well-known actress, Gordon ; Zsuzsa (1929–). ; ; Main works: ; Instinct, culture, illusions, 1934, ; The deep psychological treatment of passions and mood disorders, 1939, ; Crime and punishment, 1939, ; Critical spiritual experiences, 1943, ; Psychology and pathological psychology (in depth psychological light), 1949.