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In the fall of 1922, the Freud family was involved in a criminal case: The son of Mathilde Freud's nursing sister, Ernst Haberl, had shot at his father. With the help of August Aichhorn the Viennese Juvenile Court's social assistance department was engaged on behalf of the young man. Freud commissioned the lawyer Valentin Teirich to defend him in court.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrawing on psychoanalytic pedagogy: the influence of August Aichhorn on the psychotherapy of adolescents.
Psychoanal Q
October 2009
International College of Adolescence, Paris Descartes University.
The authors locate August Aichhorn's pioneering ideas about the psychodynamics and psychotherapy of adolescents in the context of psychoanalytic pedagogy in Europe in the 1920s and '30s. Strongly influenced by Freud's discoveries and theory, Aichhorn was himself a major influence on the work of Anna Freud and of many other child and adolescent psychoanalytic theoreticians, including Spitz, Mahler, Eissler, Erikson, and Blos. His technique drew heavily on the element of surprise and on the adolescent patient's identification with the analyst, as well as on the use of humor and empathy in treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAugust Aichhorn: a different vision of psychoanalysis, children, and society.
Psychoanal Study Child
July 2008
Department of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Though August Aichhorn, in name, remains a significant figure in the history of psychoanalysis, his ideas have been all but abandoned in the modern clinical conception of the treatment of children and adolescents who act out. The current treatment of children and adolescents, so disturbed that their behavior demands treatment outside of their home environment, is currently rudderless and highly dependent on broad societal counter-transferential reactions to disturbed youth. We argue that not only does Aichhorn hold a distinguished position in the history of the treatment of youngsters, but that his ideas about the meaning of severely disruptive behavior as well as the techniques which align with those theories remain relevant and, if utilized, would improve the treatment of severely disturbed youth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFollowing an introduction, which mainly provides biographical information about Eissler's years in Vienna, a considerable part (about one third) of his surviving correspondence with Aichhorn is documented. The main topics of this correspondence include: their friendship and present situation, including the experience of emigration; their current scientific work; political events; the reestablishment of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Association; and the development of psychoanalysis in the U.S.
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