David Bakan

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David Bakan (born April 23, 1921 in New York City ; died October 18, 2004 in Toronto ) was an American psychologist.

life and work

After attending Brooklyn College , Bakan studied psychology at Indiana University from 1942 and took his master's degree in 1944. He received his doctorate in 1948 from Ohio State University under Floyd Carlton Dockeray in aviation psychology , an application field of industrial psychology . His university career took him to the University of Missouri and University of Chicago , then to Harvard University and finally to Canada to York University .

Bakan was a representative of humanistic psychology . The social psychology owes him u. a. the important pair of terms “agency” - “communion”, which denotes two basic styles of how individuals relate to their social environment. Agency (German: “acting”) encompasses power, ability and self-assertion, while communion (German: “community”) includes closeness, unity and solidarity. The work of many younger social psychologists, such as Jerry Wiggins', is based on Bakan's ideas.

Bakan was President of the History Division of the American Psychological Association in 1970/71 , he was also head of the Division for "Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology" and the Division for "Humanistic Psychology" for one year. Bakan retired in 1991. He died in Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

Bakan and Millie Blynn married in 1948 and had six children: Joseph, Deborah, Abigail, Jonathon, Daniel and Jacob.

Fonts (selection)

  • People in conflict: Psychoanalytic, sociological and religious aspects of anthropology , Munich: Kaiser, 1976 ISBN 3-459-01055-X
  • Maimonides' cure of souls: medieval precursor of psychoanalysis , 2009 On the medieval philosopher Maimonides
  • Maimonides on prophecy: a commentary on selected chapters of the Guide of the perplexed , 1991.
  • And they took themselves wives: the emergence of patriarchy in Western civilization , 1979
  • Slaughter of the innocents. a study of the battered child phenomenon , 1971
  • The abuse of children , 1975
  • Disease, pain, & sacrifice; toward a psychology of suffering , 1968
  • Psychology and religion; a contemporary dialogue by Joseph Havens , 1968
  • On method: toward a reconstruction of psychological investigation , 1967
  • The duality of human existence: isolation and communion in Western man , 1966
  • The duality of human existence: an essay on psychology and religion , 1966
  • Sigmund Freud and the Jewish mystical tradition , Princeton: van Nostrand, 1958

literature

  • David Bakan: Reflections on my years in Psychology , in: Leendert P. Mos (Ed.): History of Psychology in Autobiography , New York: Springer 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dockeray, Floyd Carlton 1880-1949 in WorldCat
  2. ^ David Bakan, The duality of human existence: An essay on psychology and religion , 1966
  3. ↑ Jerry Wiggins: Agency and communion as conceptual coordinates for the understanding and measurement of interpersonal behavior , WM Grove, D. Cicchetti (Ed.): Thinking Clearly about Psychology , Volume 2: Personality and Psychopathology , Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Press , 1991, pp. 89-113
personal data
SURNAME Bakan, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2004
Place of death Toronto