Nazi Psychotherapy

Many of us believed that the night Hitler’s henchmen burned the published works of Sigmund Freud what they extinguished throughout Germany was the light shed by psychoanalysis as a scientific theory of the mind and as a form of treatment for mental illness. Not so, says Geoffrey Cocks of Albion College. Psychotherapy not only survived under National Socialism, but also flourished as an integrated institutional and professional entity quite separate from medical disciplines.