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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... early in the twentieth century . " 14 But Göring , in his rush to affirm the German pedigree of psychotherapy to the Nazi regime , ignored the fact that it was precisely Freud's Medicine and the Mind in Modern Germany 5.
The Göring Institute Geoffrey Cocks. regime , ignored the fact that it was precisely Freud's great contribu- tion to combine Romantic preoccupation with " hidden forces " in the psyche with the materialism of the late nineteenth ...
... regime . Even more fateful among psychiatrists in this regard was the turn during the onset of Great Depression in 1929 toward eugenics . With the resultant diminished prospects for the integration of the mentally ill into the economy ...
... regime . Notes 1. Anthony Read and David Fisher , The Fall of Berlin ( New York , 1993 ) , pp . 424-5 . 2. Harald Schultz - Hencke , Zweiter protokollarsicher Bericht May 24 , 1945 , p . 2 , Kl . Erw . 762/7 . BA . Werner Kemper ...
... regime , became increasingly interested in cultivation and control of mental health in as many ways as possible . Arguments in favor of expanding the practice of psychotherapy to disciplines outside medicine were also given added force ...
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 |