Jerome D. Frank

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Jerome David Frank (born May 30, 1909 , † March 14, 2005 ) was an American psychologist , psychiatrist and psychotherapy researcher . He is best known for his influential book "Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy" , in which he describes, among other things, general factors in psychotherapy .

Life

Jerome D. Frank studied at Harvard University , then for a year with the Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin in Berlin and received his doctorate in psychology in 1934 and in medicine in 1939 . 1934-1935 he studied again with Kurt Lewin, now at Cornell University . From 1940 he completed his medical training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, initially under Adolf Meyer .

In the mid-1930s, he conducted the soda cracker experiment . It is one of the first experiments to Gehorsamkeitsbereitschaft that Stanley Milgram to the known Milgram experiment inspired. The experiment reflects the influence of Kurt Lewin's form and field theoretical thinking, whom Frank regarded as one of his most important teachers throughout his life. Kurt Lewin in turn took over the concept of the psychological time perspective from JD Frank.

During World War II he was used as a military psychiatrist and was stationed on Hiroshima , Philippines , during the atomic bombing .

Since 1949 he was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and began (under John C. Whitehorn) to apply psychological research methods in the field of psychotherapy. Among other things, he described the effects of demoralization on the health and well-being of American soldiers deployed abroad. In collaboration with Florence Powdermaker, he developed group therapies for psychological problems, in which demoralization in particular plays a role.

In 1959 he became a full professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and continued to work as a teacher and supervisor after his retirement in 1974. Among other things, he was a mentor to Irvin D. Yalom .

He was instrumental in founding the organization Physicians for Social Responsibility (dt .: Doctors in Social Responsibility , today: IPPNW ), and spoke out publicly against the use of nuclear weapons , for human rights and humanistically oriented medicine.

Jerome D. Frank had been married to Elizabeth "Liza" Kleeman since 1948, and had four children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Group Methods in Therapy. Public Affairs Committee, New York 1959.
  • Persuasion and Healing. A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy. Johns Hopkins University Press , Baltimore 1961.
    • German edition: The healers. Modes of action of psychotherapeutic influence . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981; 4. A. ibid. 1997, ISBN 3-608-91865-5 .
  • New Threats to Man. The Challenge of Ethics. New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York 1965.
  • Sanity and Survival. Psychological Aspects of War and Peace. Random House, New York 1967.
    • German edition: Must there be war? Psychological Aspects of War and Peace . VDB, Darmstadt 1969.

Awards

Web links

Literature on Jerome D. Frank

  • Bruce E. Wampold, Joel Weinberger: Jerome D. Frank: Psychotherapy researcher and humanitarian. In: Louis G. Castonguay, J. Christopher Muran, Lynne Angus, Jeffrey A. Hayes, Nicholas Ladany, Timothy Anderson: Bringing psychotherapy research to life: Understanding change through the work of leading clinical researchers. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2010, pp. 29-38. [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Obituary of the JHU Gazette of April 18, 2005 (accessed on May 15, 2012)
  2. ↑ a b Obituary of the Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated May 19, 2005 (accessed May 15, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdpsychfoundation.org
  3. ↑ Stefan Kühl: Completely normal organizations: organizational sociological interpretations of simulated brutalities . In: Journal of Sociology . 34, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 90-111.
  4. ^ JD Frank: Kurt Lewin in Retrospect - A Psychiatrist's View. In: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciencas . tape 14 , 1978, p. 223-227 .
  5. ^ Kurt Lewin 1942, Zeitperspektiven und Moral, in: K. Lewin (1953), The solution to social conflicts , Bad Nauheim: Christian Verlag, p. 153
  6. ↑ a b Baltimore Sun obituary of March 15, 2005 (accessed May 15, 2012)
  7. ^ Herbert C. Kelman: The Kurt Lewin Memorial Award Presentation by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to Jerome D. Frank . In: Journal of Social Issues . tape 28 , no. 4 , October 1, 1972, ISSN  1540-4560 , p. 21-25 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1540-4560.1972.tb00043.x ( wiley.com [accessed October 26, 2017]).
  8. ↑ The SPR Awards ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.psychotherapyresearch.org
  9. ↑ List of past winners of the Oskar Pfister Awards (PDF)
  10. ↑ American Psychologist, Vol 41 (4), Apr 1986, 398-405.
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Jerome D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Jerome David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychotherapy researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1909
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2005