About Dr. Springmann
Dr. Springmann is a Psychoanalyst, now in private practice, who once held the position of
Chief Psychiatrist in the Israeli Defense Force and acted as Director of Mental Health in
the Ministry of Health. He was in charge of numerous psychiatric units and was respected
as a teacher and supervisor of psychotherapy, mainly severe psychopathology, at Tel Aviv
University School of Psychotherapy.
Dr. Springmann served during the War of Independence, studied two years pre-medical sciences
in Zurich, Switzerland and finished his MD in 1956 at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. After
rotating internship in the Haim Sheba (then Tel Hashomer) hospital he spent one year as
assistant in chest surgery. As the intricacies of the human soul had always interested him,
he transferred to the psychiatric ward and eventually worked his way up to the head of the
department in the hospital. His main interest had always been the dynamics of schizophrenia,
but it took several decades to come to grips with that aspect. During the years 1960-1965 he
underwent a Freudian psychoanalysis.
He gradually reached the position of Chief Psychiatrist of Israel Defense Force and later
that of Chief Psychiatrist in the Ministry of Health.
The turning point of his career as therapist was in 1969-70, a time he spent at the Tavistock
Center in London, supervised, among others, by David Malan and Henry Ezriel. Since then he
has been in charge of various wards, taught and supervised at the Tel Aviv University School
of Psychotherapy, mainly at a course devised by himself about the psychotherapy of schizophrenia.
"Dialogues with Schizophrenia – The Art of Psychotherapy" is the final outcome
of that course. It is composed of two parts. The first deals with the implementation of
interpretations in various clinical settings and various diagnostic categories. The second
part deals with the differential implementation of countertransferece, with supervision and
with the mutual influence of these entities on each other.
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* "Dialogues with Schizophrenia – The Art of Psychotherapy" is
the 4th revised edition of “Psychotherapy, The Neglected
Art”
