Franz Riklin

International Psychoanalytic Congress (1911); Riklin is in the front row, seated at far right.

Franz Beda Riklin (22 April 1878, in St. Gallen – 4 December 1938, in Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist.

Early in his career, Franz Riklin worked at the Burghölzli Hospital in Zurich under Eugen Bleuler (b.1857–d.1939), and studied experimental psychology with Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) and Gustav Aschaffenburg (b.1866–d.1944) in Heidelberg. Beginning in 1904, he was a physician at the psychiatric clinic in Rheinau. In 1910, Riklin became the first secretary of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).

Riklin is remembered for his collaboration with Carl Gustav Jung (b.1875–d.1961) on word association tests. In 1905, the treatise Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Assoziationen Gesunder was published as a result of their research. Another important work by Riklin is Wunscherfüllung und Symbolik im Märchen (Wish-Fulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales).

References

1. Kirsch, Thomas B. (2012). The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. Routledge. p. 15.

• Pierre Janet’s influence on Bleuler’s concept of Schizophrenia by Andrew Moskowitz
• The Alchemy of Discourse by Paul Kugler
• Answers.com Psychology and Fairy Tales
• Sigmund Freud; Dictionary of Names (biographical information)