Franz Riklin

Who was Franz Riklin?

Franz Riklin was a Swiss psychiatrist.

Early in his career, Franz Riklin worked at the Burghölzli Hospital in Zurich under Eugen Bleuler, and studied experimental psychology with Emil Kraepelin and Gustav Aschaffenburg 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.

Riklin is remembered for his collaboration with Carl Jung 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.