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In Psychotherapy in the Third Reich, Geoffrey Cocks focuses on a curious phenomenon which has heretofore escaped notice: even at the zenith of Nazi persecution, the profession of psychotherapy achieved an institutional status and capacity for practice unrivaled in Germany before or since.

This book shows how, despite professional disruptions and moral derelictions of life under Hitler, German psychotherapists turned peril into opportunity. The man chiefly responsible for fostering the practice of psychotherapy was Matthias Heinrich Goring, a cousin of Nazi leader Hermann Goring. Under the protection of the Goring name, a full-fledged institute was established in Berlin, funded by the German Labor Front, the Luftwaffe, and the Reich Research Council.

In addition to examining the conditions that allows psychotherapy to flourish during this period, Cocks treats broader issues, such as what a society's treatment of mental illness says about the culture as a whole, and why psychoanalysis was seen as "Jewish" and a threat to the state, while psychotherapy received the support of Hitler's regime.

"A well-researched, fully documented study, rich in dark, implicit ironics."--Kirkus Reviews

"Well-written and researched...[a] frighteningly convincing and controversial study."--Boston Sunday Globe

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Geoffrey Cocks is Royal G. Hall Professor of History at Albion College. He is the editor of The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, and the co-editor of Medicine and Modernity and German Professions, 1800-1950.

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"It is a delight to have Geoffrey Cocks' Psychotherapy in the Third Reich in an updated edition with current materials and three new chapters.... Cocks' brilliant work of scholarship won wide acclaim both in Germany and in the U.S. for its bold re-delineation of the story of psychotherapy in Nazi Germany. It is wonderful to have this important book, which is a 'must' for all psychotherapists and social scientists sensitive to issues of ethics and politics, at last available in paperback."

—Peter Loewenberg, professor of history, UCLA

"Psychotherapy in the Third Reich is a fine piece of historical scholar­ship. ... [Cocks] has presented the reader with a substantial and significant piece of history.... [H]is account of the G6ring Institute provides a fascinating case study of the tangle of ideological conviction, personal and institutional self-interest, fiefdoms and patronage, greed and fear that—in the absence of clearly defined and securely established institutional structures—defined life in Nazi Germany."

—Thomas A. Kohut, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History, Williams College

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  • PublisherOxford University Press
  • Publication date1985
  • ISBN 10 0195034619
  • ISBN 13 9780195034615
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages326

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