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Autor Cocks, Geoffrey
Verlag New York, Oxford University Press
Auflage/ Erscheinungsjahr 1985, 1st Edition
Einbandart/ Medium/ Ausstattung Gebunden
Seiten/ Spieldauer 326 Seiten
Gewicht 689 g
SFB Artikelnummer (SFB_ID) SFB-001751_AQ

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In Psychotherapy in the Third Reich, Geoffrey Cocks focuses on a curious phenomenon which has heretofore escaped notice: even at the zenith of Nazi persecution, the profession of psychotherapy achieved an institutional status and capacity for practice unrivaled in Germany before or since.

This book shows how, despite professional disruptions and moral derelictions of life under Hitler, German psychotherapists turned peril into opportunity. The man chiefly responsible for fostering the practice of psychotherapy was Matthias Heinrich Goring, a cousin of Nazi leader Hermann Goring. Under the protection of the Goring name, a full-fledged institute was established in Berlin, funded by the German Labor Front, the Luftwaffe, and the Reich Research Council. In addition to examining the conditions that allows psychotherapy to flourish during this period, Cocks treats broader issues, such as what a society's treatment of mental illness says about the culture as a whole, and why psychoanalysis was seen as "Jewish" and a threat to the state, while psychotherapy received the support of Hitler's regime.

Inhalt

Illustrations / Abbreviations 
1. Psychotherapy and National Socialism: An Overview

  • Conditions That Allowed the Profession to Develop 
  • In Chaos, Survival: Mental Health in the Third Reich 
  • Questions of Responsibility and Ethics 
  • The Nature of the Profession's Development

2. Psychotherapy and Medicine: The Rising Challenge

  • Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and World War I 
  • The Intellectual and Medical Heritage of Psychotherapy in Germany 
  • A Young Discipline Strives to Expand: The General Medical Society for Psychotherapy, 1926-1933

3. Psyche and Swastika 

  • The Adlerians: Künkel, Goring, and Seif 
  • The Jungian: Heyer 
  • The Freudians: Schultz-Hencke and Rittmeister 
  • The Independents: Hattingberg and Schultz 
  • The Volkisch Observers: Achelis, Bilz, Cimbal, and Haeberlin

4. Peril and Opportunity 

  • The Persecution of Psychoanalysts 
  • The Style and Substance of Loyalty 
  • Psychiatry versus Psychotherapy: The Regime's Fickle Needs 
  • Psychotherapy, the Patient, and the State 
  • The Psychiatrists Move to Appropriate the New Profession 
  • Paterfamilias, Parvenu, and Patriarch: Choosing a Leader 

5. Between Party and State

  • Nazi Health Organizations 
  • The German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy: Founding and Funding 
  • Party and State Submerged: The Rise and Reign of Leonardo Conti, SS 
  • Enforced Cooperation: The Assets 155 The Rittmeister Affair 
  • The Goring Way: Psychotherapy Ascends to State Status

6. The Institute at Work 

  • The Outpatient Clinic: Theory and Practice Training
  • Psychotherapy and Productivity: The Institute and the German Labor Front 
  • Homosexuality, Infertility, and Other Problems: The Institute and the SS 
  • The Institute, the Military, and War 

7. Psychotherapy in the Postwar Germanies 

  • The Battle Joined Again: The Federal Republic of Germany 
  • The Socialist Version: The German Democratic Republic

Notes /  Bibliography /  Index 

Pressestimmen

"A well-researched, fully documented study, rich in dark, implicit ironics."

Kirkus Reviews


"Well-written and researched (...) frighteningly convincing and controversial study."

The Boston Sunday Globe

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