Arnold Kutzinski (17 August 1879, Berlin – 26 December 1956, Jerusalem) was a controversial German psychiatrist and neurologist, known as both an outspoken critic of psychoanalysis and a supporter of eugenics. [1] [2]
He studied medicine at the University of Berlin, University in Munich [3] and at Freiburg, where he graduated in 1905. [4]
Subsequently, he became assistant to Bonhoeffer at the Charité psychiatric clinic in Berlin. After World War I ended, he was appointed professor of psychiatry in Königsberg.[ citation needed]
In the early 1930s, he emigrated to Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. [1] He died in 1956 in Jerusalem, aged 77. [5]
Kutzinski was a prolific writer and left a number of works in German and Hebrew on psychiatric and neurological issues. He published i.a. on aphasia, [6] blindsight, [7] headache, [8] war neuroses, [9] hysteria, [10] olfactory hallucinations, [11] eclamptic psychosis. [12] His criticism of psychoanalysis was fully articulated in the 1931 article. [13]
Arnold Kutzinski (17 August 1879, Berlin – 26 December 1956, Jerusalem) was a controversial German psychiatrist and neurologist, known as both an outspoken critic of psychoanalysis and a supporter of eugenics. [1] [2]
He studied medicine at the University of Berlin, University in Munich [3] and at Freiburg, where he graduated in 1905. [4]
Subsequently, he became assistant to Bonhoeffer at the Charité psychiatric clinic in Berlin. After World War I ended, he was appointed professor of psychiatry in Königsberg.[ citation needed]
In the early 1930s, he emigrated to Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. [1] He died in 1956 in Jerusalem, aged 77. [5]
Kutzinski was a prolific writer and left a number of works in German and Hebrew on psychiatric and neurological issues. He published i.a. on aphasia, [6] blindsight, [7] headache, [8] war neuroses, [9] hysteria, [10] olfactory hallucinations, [11] eclamptic psychosis. [12] His criticism of psychoanalysis was fully articulated in the 1931 article. [13]