(2008). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 89:214-219 Review by: Friedrich-Wilhelm Eickhoff This is a study that arose as a dissertation in the History department at the European University Institute in Florence, in which Martin Dehli draws together “the threads from the history of ideas, the history of medicine and political history that converge in Alexander Mitscherlich's life”, as the author writes in the Introduction (p. 19). Dehli relates Mitscherlich's life and work to supra-personal social and political developments and, notwithstanding their continuities, identifies some caesuras that emerge in the new beginning of “the intellectual establishment of the Federal Republic” (p. 13), in which Alexander Mitscherlich played a pre-eminent role. In the first chapter with the misleading title of Family Romance, Martin Dehli, drawing not only on archive material and the autobiography Ein Leben für die Psychoanalyse [A Life for Psychoanalysis], but also on contacts with family members and acquaintances, provides a comprehensive an [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
