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In Psychotherapy within the 3rd Reich, Geoffrey Cocks makes a speciality of a curious phenomenon which has heretofore escaped detect: even on the zenith of Nazi persecution, the occupation of psychotherapy accomplished an institutional prestige and potential for perform unequalled in Germany sooner than or considering. This e-book indicates how, regardless of expert disruptions and ethical derelictions of existence below Hitler, German psychotherapists grew to become peril into chance. the guy mainly accountable for fostering the perform of psychotherapy used to be Matthias Heinrich Goring, a cousin of Nazi chief Hermann Goring. less than the safety of the Goring identify, a full-fledged institute used to be validated in Berlin, funded by means of the German exertions entrance, the Luftwaffe, and the Reich study Council. as well as reading the stipulations that permits psychotherapy to flourish in this interval, Cocks treats broader matters, reminiscent of what a society's remedy of psychological sickness says in regards to the tradition as an entire, and why psychoanalysis used to be noticeable as "Jewish" and a chance to the country, whereas psychotherapy acquired the aid of Hitler's regime. "A well-researched, totally documented learn, wealthy in darkish, implicit ironics."--Kirkus stories "Well-written and researched...[a] frighteningly convincing and debatable study."--Boston Sunday Globe

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And, of course, in spite of the help I have received, the responsibility for any errors of fact or interpretation is mine alone. C. ALBION, MICHIGAN JUNE 1984 < previous page page_xix next page > < previous page page_1 next page > Page 1 1 Medicine and the Mind in Modern Germany On April 27, 1945, Soviet troops of Vassili Chuikov's Eighth Guards Army were fighting toward the Landwehr Canal at the western edge of the Berlin city center. The canal would be the jumping-off point for an assault on the Reichstag, the chief Russian objective in the conquest of the Nazi capital.

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Thus, any attempt to analyze the mind was simply unscientific. " 25 This strict mechanistic empiricism of German psychiatry was also actually a reaffirmation of the German tradition of idealism. By rigorously excluding all Romantic-rooted medical interest in final cause, teleology, and human attitudes, the psychiatric profession left the realm of the "soul" to the philosophers and theologians, and proclaimed the impossibility of any attempt to go beyond what could be achieved by physiology. With this approach, medical psychology in the late nineteenth century followed Kant in his delineation of what was knowable and what was not.

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