--- On Fri, 7/18/08, moominek at aol.com <moominek at aol.com> wrote:
>
> With exceptions, but psychoanalysis was no exception: After
> the official dissolution of the Institutions of german
> psychoanalysis
> in the Middle of the 1930s quite a lot of their staff,
> libaries and so on were taken to the "Deutsches
> Institut für psychologische Forschung und
> Psychotherapie" (German Institute for psychological
> research and psychotherapy) in Berlin. Outside of the
> academic boom of psychology in Nazigermany, culminating in
> the establishment of an official order of diploma exams for
> psychologist in 1941, with "Deutsches Institut" a
> professionalisation of psychotherapy started. Head of the
> Institute was Matthias Heinrich Göring, the cousin of the
> Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. The so called Göring
> Institute was funded by official money, from 1939 on by
> Institute of Labour research (Arbeitswissenschaftliche
> Institut) of the "Deutsche Arbeitsfront", a
> fascist brain trust with more than 300 staffed scientists.
> Of course you can say, all this was not "real",
> "true" etc. psychoanalysis - but that' the
> same problem with quite a lot of other traditions.