Pehr Henrik Törngren

Pehr Henrik Törngren (29-10-1908 - 19-01-1965) Swedish chess composer

Chess composing

His collection of chess problems was later integrated into Klaus Peter Zuncke's collection. In 1928 he also wrote with Eric Törngren "Schackproblemet: en handbok för alla problemvänner". He composed in all genres, direct mate miniatures, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems or items with retro content.

Pehr Henrik Törngren , born on 29 October 1908 in the municipality of Hedvig Eleonora , Stockholm , died on 19 January 1965 in the municipality of Kungsholm , Stockholm, was a Swedish physician , psychoanalyst , author and translator . He was the son of the doctor Conrad Törngren and Ingrid Jolin .

Törngren's life
Törngren obtained his medical degree from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1933 and subsequently provided psychological counselling as a practising doctor in the city. In 1932 he became editorial secretary at the specialist journal "Nordic Medical" and in 1939 at "Nordic Medicine", where he became deputy editor in 1954. From 1949 to 1954 he was secretary of the Societas medica Scandinavica.

Törngren wrote Psychoanalysis and Society (1933), Striden om Freud (1936) and Moral Disease (1940) and wrote articles for newspapers, magazines and encyclopaedias, including the biographical encyclopaedia Swedish men and women . He is recognised as one of the most brilliant Swedish psychoanalysts of the 1930s and 1940s, and Striden om Freud is considered one of the first theoretical milestones by a Swedish psychoanalyst. Törngren translated works by Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann, was one of the editors of the magazine and book publisher Spektrum and taught adults at the Kursverkshamenen in Stockholm for more than fifteen years. Törngren himself underwent analysis with Freud's pupil Ludwig Jekels .
 

After Törngren criticized psychoanalysis in a way that was considered inadmissible, he was expelled from the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society and thus also from the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). This led him to consider the discussion about psychoanalysis and its limits to be closed.

Törngren's first marriage was to Disa Törngren from 1933 to 1943 and they had a son, Erland (1938-2021).

Bibliography
The Chess Problem: A Handbook for All Problem Lovers (with Eric Törngren) (Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1928)
Psychoanalysis and Society (Stockholm: Spektrum, 1933)
The Battle for Freud: Misunderstanding – Argument – ​​Answer (Stockholm: Bonniers, 1936)
The Moral Illness (Stockholm: Medén, 1940)
The Moral Illness (into Danish by Tao Michaëlis) (Copenhagen: Det Schønbergske Forlag, 1941)
Swedish Music on Records (Stockholm: Radiotjänst, 1944)
Swedish Voices (together with Carl L. Bruun) (Stockholm: A. Lycke, 1944)
The Psychopaths and the Judgement of the World (ed.) (Stockholm: Bonniers, 1945)
The Portrait Collection of the Swedish Medical Association: Catalogue (Stockholm: The Swedish Medical Association, 1958)
Lovisa Maria Hjelm's descendants 1772–1971: a family book (Stockholm: Hedengrens bokh. (Distr.), 1971)

Source: sv.wikipedia.org