VISEL Adam
NERVOUS AGE IN THE LIGHT OF CRITICISM
Warsaw: G. Centnerszwer, 1896; pp. 170, [2]; format 13x20.5 cm
Adam (Abram) Wizel (born October 3, 1865 in Warsaw, died November 15, 1928 there) - Polish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, social activist.
He was one of the founders of the Society for the Care of Poor, Nervously and Mentally Ill Jews in 1906, on whose initiative the Zofiówka Institution for Nervously and Mentally Ill Jews in Otwock was established[8]. In 1913, together with Gustaw Krukowski and Henryk Higier, he founded the "Marts" Dietary and Natural Medicine Institution in Otwock. He was a permanent consultant to the "Marjówka" establishment in Warsaw at 17 Dolna St. In 1927 he co-founded the Society for the Care of the Mentally Ill Out-of-Hospital. He was a member of the Polish Psychiatric Society since its founding, and was president of the Warsaw branch of the Polish Psychiatric Society in 1925. He was also a member of the board of the Polish Psychological Society. He had been a member of the Warsaw Medical Society since 1894.
Vizel's assistants and students were Roman Markuszewicz, Wladyslaw Matecki. Under his guidance, psychoanalysis was studied in theory and practice by Janusz Lech Jakubowski.He was born into the Jewish family of Maurycy and Salomea Wizl. He graduated from the 5th Gymnasium in Warsaw, then studied natural sciences and later medicine at the Imperial University of Warsaw. After receiving his diploma in 1889, he received an allowance from the Józef Mianowski Fund and left for an eight-month internship at the Salpêtrière Clinic run by Jean Martin Charcot in Paris. From 1890 he worked in the neurology department of the Old Jewish Hospital on Pokorna Street under the direction of Władysław Gajkiewicz. From 1896 he was an assistant at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Warsaw at St. John of God Hospital, headed by Aleksander Szczerbak. In 1898 he became full-time head of the mental diseases department of the Old Jewish Hospital in Czystem. He remained in this position until his death.
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