Is the psyche antiquated? a typology of psychotherapeutic critique of civilization in the works of Alexander Mitscherlich
Roelcke, V.; Mitscherlich, A.
Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie 45(8): 277-284
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0937-2032 PMID: 7568648 Document Number: 441203
In the oeuvre of the psychotherapist Alexander Mitscherlich, one of the founding-fathers of psychosomatic medicine in post-war Germany, three basic types of critique of civilization can be identified. They each imply a specific conception of the relation between modernity and psychological disorder. Mitscherlich's ideas on the topic have evolved in a manner consistent with his appropriation of psychoanalysis and his confrontation with the causes and consequences of human behaviour during the time of national socialism.