Max Schur
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Max Schur, M.D. (September 26, 1897 – October 12, 1969) was a doctor and friend of Sigmund Freud. He assisted Freud in committing suicide.
Schur was born in Stanislau in what is now Ukraine. He fled the advancing Russian army and arrived in Vienna where he trained as a physician and later as a psychoanalyst. He contributed knowledge to both fields, founded two psychosomatic clinics, and explored the connection between psyche and soma in many of his 37 papers as well as in his book Freud Living and Dying.
Schur became a good friend of Freud and fled with him to London to escape the advancing Nazis. He made a promise to Freud not to let him suffer when the time came and gave Freud a lethal dose of morphine.
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- Beldoch M., The death of the hero. An essay on Max Schur's Freud: Living and Dying. Bulletin Menninger Clinic, 1974 Nov; 38(6):516-26
- Friend, M.R., Max Schur—1897–1969, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 1971, 52:231-232 [1]
- Max Schur, The id and the regulatory principles of mental functioning, International Universities Press, 1966
- Max Schur, Freud: Living and Dying, International Universities Press, 1972
