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SUMMARY: From psychotherapy to psychoanalysis: Max Levy-Suhl (1876-1947). Levy-Suhl can be considered one of the great practising psychotherapists in early 20th century Berlin. He was active in various fields, including ophthalmology, forensic adolescent psychiatry and hypnosis. Prominent among his publications were two handbooks of psychotherapeutic methods. His attitude towards psychoanalysis shifted from initial criticism to acceptance. Ca. 1930 he experienced some kind of conversion, resulting in his training at the Berlin Institute and becoming a member of the German Psychoanalytic Society. As a Jew being forced to emigrate in 1933, Levy-Suhl turned to the Netherlands where he had a psychoanalytic children's home in Amersfoort, followed by an analyst's practice in Amsterdam. He survived the German occupation, but apparently as a broken man. After the war he committed suicide.--The paper is complemented by an appendix, containing documents and an extensive bibliography.
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Famous Persons , Jews/history , National Socialism/history , Psychoanalysis/history , Psychotherapy/history , Suicide/history , Germany , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , NetherlandsABSTRACT
This paper documents Landauer's hesitation, prior to May 1940 when the Germans invaded the country, whether to emigrate a second time, and it reconstructs how he lost his positions as training analyst and psychoanalytic teacher after falling in love with a patient and starting an intimate relationship with her.
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Concentration Camps/history , Jews/history , National Socialism/history , Psychoanalysis/history , Germany , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , NetherlandsABSTRACT
Watermann was a Jewish psychoanalyst in Hamburg who fled from Nazi Germany in 1933. He settled in The Netherlands as a practicing psychiatrist/psychoanalyst, became a member of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society after some complications and married a Dutch woman. After May 1940, the German occupation of Holland made his life very difficult, finally impossible. He and his family were murdered in Auschwitz.
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Holocaust/history , Jews/history , National Socialism/history , Psychoanalysis/history , Refugees/history , Austria , Germany , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , NetherlandsABSTRACT
The author provides persuasive or at least plausible data for the identity of two patients recorded by Freud in his working season of 1910/11. They were two sisters, living in The Hague/Leiden, who came from a rich banker's family, the van der Lindens. Whereas the treatment does not seem to have led to any decisive improvement for the older of the two, it may have encouraged the younger sister to seek divorce.
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Freudian Theory , Psychoanalysis/history , Siblings/psychology , Austria , Female , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , NetherlandsABSTRACT
The career of van Ophuijsen is described in this article using material from public and privat archives. After completing his medical studies at the University of Leyden, he trained as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1913 he opened his practice in The Hague. Van Ophuijsen was the most prominent member of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society in the twenties; he was president from 1928 till 1933. He was also on the board of the International Psychoanalytic Association. In 1933 he initiated a split in the Dutch Society, resigned as its president, and founded a short-lived new society. At the end of 1935 he settled in New York, where he was an active psychoanalyst and psychiatrist until his death.
