Paul Diel

Paul Diel (July 11, 1893 - January 5, 1972) was a French psychologist of Austrian descent who developed the method of introspective analysis and the psychology of motivation.

Contents

1 Life 2 Further reading 2.1 Works 2.2 Co-authored works 2.3 Related works 3 External links 4 References

Life

Diel was born in Vienna, Austria, on July 11, 1893, to a teacher and an unknown man. He was orphaned at the age of 14 but was able to complete high school through the support of a benefactor. Diel taught himself philosophy. Inspired by the philosophers Plato, Kant and Spinoza, and also by the psychologists Freud, Adler and Jung, he delved into his own psychological research and established the basis of the introspective analysis method that helped him develop the theories of motivation psychology.

Diel practised psychotherapy at the central hospital of Vienna, and in 1935 he sent his work on introspective analysis to Albert Einstein. Einstein greatly appreciated Diel's work and they established a correspondence that did not end until Einstein's death in 1955.

After the Nazi German Anschluss of Austria, Diel escaped to France and worked at Saint Anne's psychiatric hospital in Paris. Unfortunately, because he was a foreign national, he became imprisoned in a camp for foreign refugees in southern France during World War II. After his release, he was able to join CNRS in 1945 with the backing of Einstein and Irène Joliot-Curie. At CNRS he worked as a children's psychotherapist in Henri Wallon's laboratory.

Diel continued working as a researcher and psychotherapist and had trained a group of students and published books on various subjects like education, symbolism and evolution until he died of cancer on January 5, 1972.

Further reading

Works

• Diel, P. (1989). Fear and Anxiety: Primary triggers of survival and evolution (B. Donvez, Trans.). Claremont, CA: Hunter House. ISBN 0897930517.
• Diel, P. (1986). The God Symbol: Its history and its significance (N. Marans, Trans.). San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN 0062548050.
• Diel, P. (1987). Journal of a Psychoanalysis (R. Gravel, Trans.). Boston: Shambhala. ISBN 0877733708.
• Diel, P. (1991). The psychology of motivation (Paul Diel Society, Trans.). Claremont, CA: Hunter House. ISBN 0897930576.
• Diel, P. (1987). The psychology of re-education (R. Rosenthal, Trans.). Boston/New York: Shambhala/Random House. ISBN 0877733678.
• Diel, P. (1992). Psychology, psychoanalysis and medicine (K. McKinley, Trans.). Alameda, CA: Hunter House. ISBN 0897930584.
• Diel, P. (1980). Symbolism in Greek mythology: Human desire and its transformations (V. Stuart, M. Stuart & R. Folkman, Trans.). Boulder/New York: Shambhala/Random House. ISBN 0877731780 & ISBN 0394510836.
• Diel, P. (1986). Symbolism in the Bible: The universality of symbolic language and its psychological significance (N. Marans, Trans.). San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN 0866834753.

Co-authored works

• Diel, P, & Solotareff, J. (1988). Symbolism in the Gospel of John (N. Marans, Trans.). San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN 0866835091.

Related works

• Solotareff, J. (1991). L'aventure interieure: La methode introspective de Paul Diel. Paris: Editions Payot. ISBN 2228883980.
• Solotareff, J. (1994). Le symbolisme dans les rêves: La méthode de traduction de Paul Diel. Paris: Editions Payot. ISBN 2228888133.
• Solotareff, J. (2004). Une lecture symbolique des Évangiles: Selon la méthode introspective de Paul Diel. Paris: Editions du Cerf. ISBN 2204073016.

External links

• Association for Introspective Psychology

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References

• 405-2.1 Paul Diel. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2004, from http://news.taovillage.com/news/site_arbos/arbo/405surquoicompter/405-2.1PaulDiel.htm.
• FirstSearch [OCLC - Reference]. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2004, from http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/.
• Site de l'assossiation de psychologie introspective. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2004, from http://perso.wanadoo.fr/introspective.psychology.