Arnold Kutzinski

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Arnold Kutzinski (born August 17, 1879 in Berlin , † December 26, 1956 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist .

Kutzinski studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . After graduating doctorate he 1905 in Freiburg to Dr. med. Then he went to Karl Bonhoeffer at the Charité mental hospital . There he became a senior physician and, like his boss, a staunch opponent of psychoanalysis .

After the First World War he became associate professor for psychiatry at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He came out against Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung with German and Hebrew publications and advocated eugenics .

In the early 1930s he emigrated to Palestine . He lived in Tel Aviv .

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Individual evidence

  1. Kutzinski's own curriculum vitae (ImageShack)
  2. a b Circular letter from Albertus University, Christmas 1957
  3. Dissertation: On the question of the ability to testify in psychoses