
Witnessing Psychoanalysis
From Vienna back to Vienna via Buchenwald and the USA
Ernst Federn(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2019
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-367-32981-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains a collection of articles on social psychology, the psychology of terror and violence, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the history of psychoanalysis. It also includes Federn's moving memoir of his encounter with Bruno Bettelheim in Buchenwald.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-32981-5 (9780367329815)
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Federn, E.
Content
Foreword -- Introduction -- Psychoanalysis in Buchenwald -- On the discussions between Bruno Bettelheim, Dr. Brief and Ernst Federn -- On Social Psychology -- Mental hygiene as applied to the prevention of war -- Some remarks on the meaning of help -- A psycho-social view of 'drug abuse' in adolescence -- On the psychology of terror and violence -- The Endurance of Torture -- The Therapeutic Management of Violence -- Some clinical remarks on the psychopathology of genocide -- On the psychology of mass murderers: an exchange of letters between Ernst Federn and Robert Waelder -- On Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy -- The psychotherapeutic personality, as illustrated by Paul Federn and August Aichhorn -- Some challenges and pitfalls of milieu therapy -- On the history of psychoanalysis -- How Freudian are the Freudians? Some remarks on an unpublished letter -- Freud, hero or villain? -- Some remarks on a case of fiction being stranger than life, or How to write or not to write a history of psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalysis: a 'neutral' or a 'committed' science? -- Psychohistorians discuss psychohistory: some little-known contributions of psychoanalysis to history -- Some further remarks on the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics -- A cooperation through life -- About King Laius and Oedipus: reminiscences from a childhood under the spell of Freud