Max Eitingon
1881–1943 (age 62)
Biography
Max Eitingon was a physician whose pioneering efforts in psychoanalysis brought the insights of Freud and his school into the life of the Jewish people. He played a central role in establishing psychoanalytic training societies in Berlin and beyond, ensuring that the practice of therapy was guided by both scientific precision and deep ethical concern.
After emigrating to Palestine, Eitingon nurtured the growth of a psychoanalytic community in the region, supporting hospitals and clinics and fostering dialogue between medicine and culture until his death in 1943.