Fritz Morgenthaler (July 19, 1919 - October 26, 1984) was a Swiss psychoanalyst, physician and painter.
Morgenthaler was along with George Devereux one of the founders of ethnopsychoanalysis.
His doctoral thesis, Untersuchungen über die Phänomenologie des Fussohlenreflexes beim Gesunde, was published in 1948.
[1] While he was working at a neurological hospital in Zurich he trained as a psychoanalyst with Rudolf Brunn.
Together with his wife Ruth, and Paul Parin and his wife Goldy Parin-Matthèy he undertook expeditions to West Africa and they developed the concept of ethnopsychoanalysis.