Martin Grotjahn

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Martin Grotjahn , (born July 8, 1904 in Berlin ; † September 30, 1990 ) was an American psychoanalyst of German descent .

Life

Martin Grotjahn was the son of the doctor Alfred Grotjahn and a great-grandson of Heinrich Grotjahn . From 1922 to 1924 he visited the school farm Insel Scharfenberg and kept a “scientific student diary” there for two years. In 1924 he passed the Abitur . He graduated from the summer semester 1924 to May 1926 in Berlin medicine with state examination degree and in 1930 his doctorate .

From 1929 he specialized in psychiatry and completed a psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytical Polyclinic and Training Institute in Potsdamer Strasse 29 (today No. 74) in Berlin-Tiergarten under the direction of Max Eitingon and developed into a supporter of Sigmund Freud .

In 1937 he emigrated to the USA with his Jewish wife Etelka Grosz, the daughter of the Magdeburg doctor Gyula Grosz , and his one-year-old son Michael . There he joined the US Army as a doctor, worked as a psychoanalyst in Chicago and worked in the clinic of the psychiatrist Karl Menninger until 1945 . Then Grotjahn went to Los Angeles and founded the Southern California Institute for Psychoanalysis, a training center for psychoanalysts, with Friedrich Hacker and May Romm . He himself became one of the most famous American psychoanalysts and was one of the first to study the trauma of aging.

Martin Grotjahn was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California . At the age of 75, he suffered a serious heart attack , which limited his health. Grotjahn noted that he now felt old: "Suddenly I realized: 50 years of work are enough. (...) With work and worries I have finished."

Fonts (selection)

  • About investigations on bag carriers. Berlin, Univ., Diss., 1930.
  • with Franz Alexander and Samuel Eisenstein: Psychoanalytic Pioneers. Basic Books, New York 1966; Transaction Publishers, 1995, ISBN 1-56000-815-6 .
  • Smoking, coughing, laughing and applauding. A comparative study on the symbolism of breathing (lecture on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Psychoanalytical Institute ). In: Hilda Abraham : Psychoanalysis in Berlin. Contributions to history, theory and practice. Anton Hain, Meisenheim 1971, pp. 163–169 ( digitized version ).
  • The sense of laughter. Psychoanalytic reflections on wit, the comic and the humor. German by Gerhard Vorkamp. Munich 1974.
  • The language of the symbol. Access to the unconscious. German by Gerhard Vorkamp. Munich 1977.
  • An interview with Martin Grotjahn . In: Group . tape 4 , Issue 1, 1980, ISSN  1573-3386 , pp. 72-76 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01456490 .
  • Art and Technique of Analytical Group Therapy. German by Gudrun Theusner-Stampa. Frankfurt am Main 1985.
  • My favorite patient. The Memoirs of a Psychoanalyst. Lang, New York / Frankfurt 1987.

literature

  • Dietmar Haubfleisch: Scharfenberg Island School Farm. Microanalysis of the educational reform reality of a democratic experimental school in Berlin during the Weimar Republic (= studies on educational reform. Volume 40). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-631-34724-3 ( table of contents and foreword by Wolfgang Keim , series editor of the series; in it comprehensive information on Grotjahn's youth at the school farm that shaped him).
  • Karl Jung: Life and work of the psychiatrist Martin Grotjahn, 1904. Dissertation, University of Mainz, 1979.
  • Christoph Kaspari: Alfred Grotjahn (1869–1931). Life and work. Dissertation, University of Bonn, 1989 (therein chapter Alfred Grotjahn and his son Martin, pp. 371–387).
  • Michelle Moreau Ricaud: Martin Grotjahn (1904–1990). In: Revue Internationale d'Histoire de la Psychanalyse. Volume 4 (1991), p. 697.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Haubfleisch: "Student work" as a source for opening up the reform pedagogical teaching and upbringing reality of the school farm Insel Scharfenberg (Berlin) in the Weimar Republic In: Towards a History of Everyday Educational Reality ( archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de ).
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the German Psychoanalytical Society ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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.dpg-psa.de
  3. ^ Wolfram Fischer : Exodus of Sciences from Berlin. Questions - Results - Desiderata. Developments before and after 1933 (=  research reports from the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Research report 7). Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 3-11-013945-6 , p. 504 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Katharina Gröning: need for care and shame In: Rainer Treptow, Reinhard Hörster (ed.): Socio-educational integration p. 284
  5. ^ Martin Grotjahn: On Being Born Twice An Attempt to Analyze the Immigration Experience . In: British Journal of Psychotherapy . tape 4 , no. 4 , 1988, ISSN  1752-0118 , pp. 431-435 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1752-0118.1988.tb01046.x .
  6. ↑ Meinolf Peters, Hartmut Radebold: Clinical developmental psychology of old age . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2004, ISBN 3-525-46219-0 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Grotjahn, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1990