Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring InstituteThe idea for this book sprang from Geoffrey Cocks' curiosity as to what happened in the new, dynamic field of psychotherapy hi Germany with the advent of Hitler. While traditional views merely asserted that the Nazis destroyed the field of psychotherapy in Germany, a viewpoint justifiably based on the testimony of those in the field who had emigrated from Germany to escape Nazi persecution, Cocks learned that there was more to the story. He looked to several interesting shards of evidence that pointed to the possibility that one could reconstruct a history of morally questionable professional developments in German psychotherapy during the Third Reich. The evidence included: existence of a journal for psychotherapy published continuously from 1928 to 1944; accounts of a psychotherapist who assumed leadership of his colleagues and who was a relative of the powerful Nazi leader Hermann Goring; and a strong psychotherapeutic lobby in German medicine that was intellectually impoverished but apparently not destroyed by the expulsion of the prominent and predominantly Jewish psychoanalytic movement. Non-Jewish psychoanalysts and psychotherapists had in fact pursued their profession under the aegis of the so-called Goring Institute, with substantial support from agencies of the Nazi party, the Reich government, the military, and private business. Much research has been done in the ten years since the first edition of this book was published, hence the need for a second edition. Included is more information on the history of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Nazi Germany, on the social history of the Third Reich, and on the history of the professions in Germany. Three new chapters analyze postwar developments and conflicts as well as broader issues of continuity and discontinuity in the history of modern Germany and the West. In addition, the author has reorganized the volume along chronological and narrative lines for greater ease of reading. "Psychotherapy in the Third Reich "is an important work for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, sociologists, and historians. |
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... concerned psychotherapist Johannes Heinrich Schultz , deputy director of the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psy- chotherapy at Keithstrasse 41 in Berlin . Rosenberg's office had no objection to Schultz giving public ...
... concerned themselves with the subjective realms of the emo- tional and the irrational : They held beliefs now considered quite sophisticated : the notion of inner conflict ; the idea of the human being as psychobiological entity ; that ...
... concerned with human welfare , and not least of all the public — potential and actual patients — in general . Second , the successive crises of war , de- feat , and economic disorder increased the need and demand for medi- cal services ...
... concerns did not , however , prevent Abraham in 1925 from serving as an expert consultant on a feature film about psychoanalysis . Freud was not enthusiastic about the project , having earlier turned down an offer out of Hollywood from ...
... concerned itself primarily with the antagonistic stance of the bulk of psychiatrists and the incumbent dangers to psy- chotherapy . This concern stemmed from the desire of these psychotherapeutically inclined physicians to oppose a ...
Contents
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Nazi Medicine and the Jewish Science | 55 |
Psyche and Swastika | 75 |
Psychiatry Old Enemy in a New Reich | 99 |
The Parvenu and the Patriarch | 125 |
Institute and Profession | 157 |
The First Goring Institute 19361939 | 177 |
The SS the Wehrmacht and Sexuality | 285 |
Psychotherapy and War Neurosis | 305 |
Reich Institute | 329 |
Reconstruction and Repression | 351 |
Rebellion and Remembrance | 379 |
Psychotherapy the Third Reich and the Course of Modern German History | 399 |
Appendixes | 417 |
Bibliography | 435 |
Patients and Psychotherapy Neurosis in Nazi Germany | 219 |
The Second Goring Institute 19391942 | 251 |
Index | 451 |