Hans Thorner

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Hans Adolf Thorner (born January 6, 1905 in Meißen ; † February 26, 1991 in Charlottesville ), later Anglicized to Hans Adolph Thorner , was a German-British neurologist .

Life and activity

Thorner studied medicine. In 1928 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the psychology of reading at the University of Munich to Dr. med. He received his license to practice medicine in 1930. From 1931 to 1932 he was an assistant at the Animal Physiological Institute at the University of Frankfurt . From 1932 to 1933 he was employed as an assistant in the neurological department of the Moabit hospital.

Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Thorner was dismissed from civil service in May 1933 due to his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent in accordance with the provisions of the law on the restoration of the civil service. He then emigrated to Great Britain, where he found a position as an assistant doctor at Peckham House Mental Hospital in London in 1934 . He stayed there until 1939.

In 1939 Thorner opened a private practice as a specialist in psychological medicine. From 1942 to 1946 he then worked as a nerve specialist in the British Army with the rank of major at Shenley Hospital.

After his emigration, Thorner was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police forces : In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be succeeded by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

In 1949 Thorner was appointed to the teaching staff of the Institute for Psycho-Analysis in London. In 1950 he took up a position as a consultative psychiatrist at Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders in Richmond, London.

Fonts

  • Experimental studies on the psychology of reading. Part I: Reading meaningless material , s. l. 1929. (Dissertation).
  • "The Treatment of Psychoneurosis in the British Army", in: International Journal of Psychoanalysis , Vol. 27 1946, pp. 52-59.
  • "Notes on a Case of Male Homosexuality", in: International Journal of Psychoanalysis , Vol. 30, 1949, pp. 31-35.
  • "Examination Anxiety without Examination", in: International Journal of Psychoanalysis , Vol. 33, 1952, pp. 153-159.
  • "The Criteria of Progress in a Patient during Analysis", in: International Journal of Psychoanalysis , Vol. 33, 1952, pp. 479-484.
  • "Three Defenses against inner Persecution in M. Klein", in: P. Heimann / RE Money-Kyrle (Ed.): New Directions in Psycho-Analysis , 1955.
  • "Notes on the Desire for Knowledge", in: International Journal of Psychoanalysis , Vol. 62, 1981, pp. 73-80.
  • "'Either / or - A Contribution to the Problem of Symbolization and Sublimation", in: International Journal of Psychoanalysis , Vol. 62, 1981, pp. 455-463.
  • "On Repetition. Its Relationship to the Depressive Position", in: International Journal of Psychoanalysis , Vol. 66, 1985, pp. 231-236.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Thorner on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
personal data
SURNAME Thorner, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thorner, Hans Adolf (full name); Thorner, Hans Adolph (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1991
Place of death Charlottesville