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. Its growth and interconnection with
other fields appealed to the eclectic and holistic interests of
historians so much so that the term "psychohistory" was coined,
admiringly, ambivalently, or perjoratively. The methodological
intersection of psychology and history also helped move us toward a
more inclusive social history through investigation of the
institutional history of medical sciences of the mind.
"Treating Mind and Body "examines the recent history of
psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and medicine in Germany through a
series of original essays by Geoffrey Cocks. The first section,
"Psychotherapy," analyzes the history of psychotherapy in the Third
Reich and includes such essays as "The Professionalization of
Psychotherapy in Germany" and "The Nazis and C.G. Jung," which
examines Jung's association with the Nazi regime and the rift
between Jungians and Freudians.
Section two, "Psychoanalysis," considers the repression of
memory evident among German psychoanalysts, a more disturbing
historical reality than the traditional view of a Nazi destruction
of psychoanalysis. Essays include "Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
in Germany Since 1939," as well as a discussion of Heinz Kohut's
"self psychology" in light of Kohut's life experience in Austria
and America. In section three, Cocks treats medicine, the history
of professions, and the increasing awareness among historians of
the place of medicine hi Nazi plans and projects. Essays include
"Jews and Medicine in Modern German Society" and "The Nuremberg
Doctor's Trial and Medicine in Modern Germany."
As a historian of Germany, psychoanalysis, and medicine,
Cocks's writings reflect an abiding interest in the intersections
of psychology and history. To his selection of previously published
essays he adds a new introduction, placing the essays in newer,
richer contexts. This book will be of interest to psychologists,
psychiatrists, and psychotherapists, as well as those in the fields
of medicine, history, and sociology.
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