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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... : Excerpted from " German Psychiatry , Psychotherapy , and Psychoanalysis During the Nazi Period : Historiographical Reflections , " Discovering the History of Psychiatry , edited by Mark S. xii Psychotherapy in the Third Reich.
... psychiatric establishment in Germany , which had traditionally re- garded mental illness as physical in origin and ... psychiatrists during the war . In any case , although the German wartime government displayed some inter- est in ...
... psychiatrists in Germany would reject during the latter half of the nineteenth century . The concepts of the unity of body and mind and of the unconscious can be traced as far back in medical history as Heraclitus in the sixth century ...
... psychiatrists and doctors in general : After he assumed the directorship of a hospital and clinic there was never a ques- tion of who was the man in charge . " Imperial German Psychiatry " was said to have gained prominence under the ...
... psychiatrists increasingly evinced a pessimism about the possi- bilities for treatment and cure . Therapy remained marginal and crude . It was this unbending environment that nurtured the work of those , like neurologist Wilhelm Erb ...
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 |