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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