Psychologie

1990

Physis; rivista internazionale di storia della scienza

It was at the height of the Second World War in 1941 that the renowned Italian psychologist Agostino Gemelli organised a meeting of high-ranking German and Italian psychologists in Rome. The German delegation encompassed university professors as well as leading practicing psychologists. Most of Gemelli’s bjectives were obvious: prompted by the failure of the Italian military, he wanted the Italian government to appreciate the significance of military psychology as practiced in Germany for Italy. He might well have had a further goal: to institutionalise an independent discipline of psychology in Italy based on the recent German model. The fortunes of war, however, were to prevent the realisation of this last objective, so that psychologists in post-war Italy had to look for other models of institutionalising an independent discipline.

J Hist Behav Sci, 1983

Anregungen zu einem (selbst)bewussteren Leben https://andreas-peglau-psychoanalyse.de/, 2023

In 2013, my dissertation "Unpolitische Wissenschaft? Wilhelm Reich und die Psychoanalyse im Nationalsozialismus" was first published as a book. In 2015, the second edition followed and in 2017, the Psychosozial-Verlag Gießen brought it out in a third and expanded edition. In a review, philosopher Werner Abel described it as "one of the most important books on the history of psychoanalysis, making its decline from a socially critical theory and practice to a medicalised, supposedly 'apolitical' science comprehensible in detail for the first time.". The psychoanalyst Bernd Nitzschke stated: "The interweaving between the fate of psychoanalysis in the Nazi state and the history of Wilhelm Reich's exclusion, persecution and emigration, which Peglau meticulously reconstructs, is the lynchpin of the book, which is an indispensable reference point for anyone who wants to deal with the Nazi history of psychoanalysts without blinkers in the future." I then compiled some of the most important results of my years of research in 2019 - with the kind permission of Psychosozial Verlag - in an abridged version in the orignal German. It has since been downloaded several thousand times from my website. In order to make this information even more widely available, I have now supplemented and updated the text and translated it into English. This abridged version cannot replace reading the nearly 700 pages of the book. In particular, the voluminous information on the life and work of Wilhelm Reich could only be integrated here to a very limited extent. But it offers a good introduction to some of the main contents of the book. I hope this text will stimulate further research. This is urgently needed to revive the original potential of psychoanalysis as a critical social science. Not only was this potential displaced during the Nazi era: This displacement continues to a large extent - until today.

Psychologie und Kritik: Formen der Psychologisierung nach 1945 , 2020

Malich, L., & Balz, V. (2020). Psychology and critique - forms of psychologization after 1945: An introduction. In V. Balz & L. Malich (Eds.), Psychologie und Kritik: Formen der Psychologisierung nach 1945 (pp. 23-39). Wiesbaden: Springer.

2019

Psychological Research, 1980