Gustav Richard Heyer

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Gustav Richard Heyer (born April 29, 1890 in Bad Kreuznach , † November 19, 1967 in Nussdorf am Inn ) was a German psychotherapist .

Life

Heyer's father was Ministerialrat Carl Heyer, and his maternal grandfather was a member of the German Reichstag. Heyer studied medicine in Munich and Heidelberg. In 1917 he married Lucy Grothe, the marriage was divorced in 1933. Heyer became a doctor at the 2nd Medical Clinic at the University of Munich. In 1924 he opened a private practice. In 1925 he founded the "Working Group for Medical Psychology" at the University of Munich. In 1928 he met Carl Gustav Jung in Munich and in 1930 he underwent a training analysis . After his break with Jung in 1936, he joined the NSDAP in 1937 , from which he left again in 1944. In 1937 he became head of training at the German Institute for Psychological Research in Berlin. The aim of the so-called Göring Institute was the development of a “New German Psychoanalysis, purified from Jewish psychoanalysis”. During this time, Heyer wrote many anti-Semitic articles. During the Second World War he was assigned to a military hospital .

After the war, he ran a practice for internal and nervous diseases in Nussdorf and was a regular at the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks. In 1950 he supported Ernst Speer , whom he knew from his Nazi era, the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks . From 1959 he was co-editor of the journal Praxis der Psychotherapie at JF Lehmanns Verlag.

Publications

  • Soul guidance. Possibilities, ways, limits , Potsdam 1929.
  • Soul spaces. Psychotherapeutic observations on the collective soul , Stuttgart 1931.
  • The organism of the soul. An introduction to analytical mental medicine #, Munich 1932.
  • Practical psychology. An introduction to psychotherapy for doctors and students , Munich 1935.
  • From the force field of the soul. Two treatises on depth psychology , Stuttgart 1949.
  • Soul science in the upheaval of time. With a foreword by Jean Gebser . Bern and Stuttgart 1964.

literature

  • Article by Andreas von Heydwolff in the "Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy"
  • Geoffrey Cocks: Psychotherapy in the Third Reich. The Goering Institute . New York 1985.
  • The force field of man and researcher Gustav Richard Heyer. A commemorative publication for his 65th birthday , Munich 1955.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian biography: Advanced search: LAGIS Hessen. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hans Thomas Hakl: The hidden spirit of Eranos. Unknown encounters between science and esotericism. An alternative intellectual history of the 20th century , Sinzheim 2001. p. 112.
  3. ↑ The dark shadow of the Nazi neurologists. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 253
  5. ↑ https://www.schwaebische.de/landkreis/landkreis-lindau/lindau_artikel,-der-dunkle-schatten-der-ns-nerven%C3%A4rzte-_arid,4085637.html
personal data
SURNAME Heyer, Gustav Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1967
Place of death Nussdorf am Inn