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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hermanns, Ludger M
• Schröter, Michael
• Stroeken, Harry

Titel

From psychotherapy to psychoanalysis: Max Levy-Suhl (1876-1947)

Ist Teil von

• Luzifer-Amor : Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse, 2014, Vol.27 (53), p.141

Ort / Verlag

Germany

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.