Witnessing Psychoanalysis

Federn, E.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Psychoanalysis in Buchenwald -- On the discussions between Bruno Bettelheim, Dr. Brief and Ernst Federn -- On Social Psychology -- Mental hygiene as applied to the prevention of war -- Some remarks on the meaning of help -- A psycho-social view of ‘drug abuse’ in adolescence -- On the psychology of terror and violence -- The Endurance of Torture -- The Therapeutic Management of Violence -- Some clinical remarks on the psychopathology of genocide -- On the psychology of mass murderers: an exchange of letters between Ernst Federn and Robert Wälder -- On Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy -- The psychotherapeutic personality, as illustrated by Paul Federn and August Aichhorn -- Some challenges and pitfalls of milieu therapy -- On the history of psychoanalysis -- How Freudian are the Freudians? Some remarks on an unpublished letter -- Freud, hero or villain? -- Some remarks on a case of fiction being stranger than life, or How to write or not to write a history of psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalysis: a ‘neutral’ or a ‘committed’ science? -- Psychohistorians discuss psychohistory: some little-known contributions of psychoanalysis to history -- Some further remarks on the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics -- A cooperation through life -- About King Laius and Oedipus: reminiscences from a childhood under the spell of Freud