Edoardo Weiss was the earliest Italian psychoanalyst, and the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy.
Career
His most important theoretical contributions were perhaps to the development of ego state theory. After the Anschluss of 1938, Weiss emigrated to America, to work first at the Menninger Clinic, and then with Franz Alexander in Chicago. He oversaw the publication of Federn"s posthumous writings in 1953.
Membership
Weiss"s interest in psychoanalysis led to him visiting the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1908. He would subsequently be analysed by a leading member of that group, Paul Federn, with whom he established a lifelong collaboration.