Treating Mind and Body - Essays in History of Science, Professions Society Under Extreme

As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire, fantasy, and irrationality as it is about interest, reality, and reason, the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance

List of contents

Introduction Part I: Psychotherapy 1. The Professionalization of Psychotherapy in Germany, 1928-1949 2. The Nazis and C. G. Jung 3. Repressing, Remembering, Working Through: The Science and History of Memory in Postwar Germany Part II: Psychoanalysis 4. On Throwing Dishes from a Window in a Dream: Psychoanalysis in European Society and Politics, 1900-1939 5. Developmental Continuities in German Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy since 1939 6. The Curve of Heinz Kohut’s Life Part III: Medicine 7. Health, Medicine, and Illness in Modem Germany 8. Partners and Pariahs: Jews and Medicine in Modem German Society 9. The Old as New: The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial and Medicine in Modem Germany

About the author

Cocks, Geoffrey

Summary

As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire, fantasy, and irrationality as it is about interest, reality, and reason, the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance

Product details

• Authors: Cocks, Geoffrey Cocks, Peter J. Loewenberg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138517486
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51748-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works