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Hist Psychiatry
June 2020
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Harry Harlow, famous for his experiments with rhesus monkeys and cloth and wire mothers, was visited by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby and by child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim in 1958. They made similar observations of Harlow's monkeys, yet their interpretations were strikingly different. Bettelheim saw Harlow's wire mother as a perfect example of the 'refrigerator mother', causing autism in her child, while Bowlby saw Harlow's results as an explanation of how socio-emotional development was dependent on responsiveness of the mother to the child's biological needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMax Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, the proponents of a "critical theory of society" exemplified an historical/ philosophical scepticism regarding the place of the Subject in a capitalistic society, as well as towards the explanatory value of Psychoanalysis. In spite of this they were very active in supporting the reestablishment of Psychoanalysis in postwar Germany.
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January 2015
Pôle de psychiatrie, centre hospitalier de Quimperlé, 20 bis, avenue du Général-Leclerc, 29300 Quimperlé, France. Electronic address:
David L. Gutmann, a pioneer in geropsychology and professor emeritus at Northwestern University, died on November 3, 2013, at the age of 88. A student of Bernice Neugarten, Bruno Bettelheim, and Erik Erikson, Gutmann discovered changes in adult psychological development related to parenting styles that held across diverse cultures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents hitherto unknown material from the German Foreign Office referring to the denaturalization of Therese Benedek, Bruno Bettelheim, Adolf Storfer and Wilhelm Reich by Nazi Germany. It corroborates the finding that nobody was persecuted by the Nazis solely on the basis of psychoanalytic activities or membership in a psychoanalytic organization.
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