William G. Netherlands

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William G. Netherlands (born August 29, 1904 in Schippenbeil , East Prussia ; died July 30, 1993 in Englewood, New Jersey ) was a German-American psychoanalyst .

Life

Wilhelm Niederland's father Abraham moved from East Prussia to Würzburg as a rabbi and chasan . The Netherlands attended the Royal High School in Würzburg and studied medicine at the University of Würzburg . After graduating, he worked in the Beelitz Heilstätten from 1929, in the health department in Düsseldorf from 1930 and was a doctor in the Rheinburg Sanatorium in Gailingen from 1932 to 1934 .

In 1934 the Netherlands emigrated to Italy , where he again passed a medical exam and practiced as a psychiatrist. He Italianized his first name to Guglielmo. In 1939 he emigrated from fascist Italy to Great Britain and from there in 1940 went to the United States , where he had to take a third medical exam and readjust his first name. In 1954 he became a US citizen. He worked as a hospital doctor, ran a private practice and taught intermittently at the University of South Florida . Between 1948 and 1953 he deepened his training at the New York Psychoanalytical Institute and worked at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center until 1977 , where he received a professorship.

The Netherlands worked all his life on the Daniel Paul Schreber case , which was published by Sigmund Freud in 1911 and described the Netherlands as his “most important contribution to psychoanalytic research into psychosis”. His first of a series of essays on the subject appeared in 1951. When his monograph appeared in 1974, Morton Schatzman from the school of antipsychiatrists had already seized the case and built it up as evidence against the Freudian school . Netherlands 'last writing on Schreber appeared in 1989. A vacation in Greece resulted in Netherlands' interest in the vita of the Troy discoverer Heinrich Schliemann and his research drive.

Since 1953, the Netherlands has been working as a medical expert at German social courts on behalf of the victims' organization United Restitution Organization , which set the pension entitlements of Holocaust survivors. Contrary to the expert opinion drawn up by German psychiatrists in the interests of reparation for the German state , according to which a limited ability to work of former concentration camp inmates, forced laborers or their relatives was only due to individual predispositions after a relatively short time, the Netherlands led the long-term health impairments to the Nazi persecution back. In 1961 his first publication appeared on this: The Problems of the Survivor-Part I , and from 1963 he organized a series of conferences at Wayne State University on the topic of Late Sequelae of Massive Psychic Trauma . Together with Robert Jay Lifton , Ulrich Venzlaff and Henry Krystal , Netherlands coined the theory of survivor syndrome , for which the first publication appeared in 1964.

He also treated veterans of the US armed forces of the Vietnam War and in 1980 revised the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) of the American Psychiatric Association .

The Netherlands was co-editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly for over twenty years and president of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York from 1971 to 1973 .

He had three sons with his wife Jacqueline (1918–1992).

Fonts

The Schreber case (German translation, 1978)
  • Trauma and creativity . Collection of articles by Wenda Focke. With an introduction by Hans-Martin Lohmann, Nexus, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-923301-43-X .
  • The misunderstood victims. Late compensation for mental harm . In: Ludolf Herbst , Constantin Goschler (Hrsg.): Reparation in the Federal Republic of Germany . Munich: Oldenbourg, 1989, pp. 351-359
  • Consequences of the Persecution: Survivor Syndrome, Soul Murder . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-11015-2 .
  • The Schreber Case: The Psychoanalytic Profile of a Paranoid Personality . Translated by Jeanette Friedeberg, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1978, ISBN 3-518-07490-3 . (Original edition in English 1974.)
  • High blood pressure and hardening of the arteries: protection against circulatory disorders and heartbeat; effective prevention through natural living and healing . Falken-Verlag, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1935.
  • Nervousness! Everybody's illness causes, prevention and successful treatment of nervous and mental ailments . Falken, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1935.
  • An analytic inquiry into the life and work of Heinrich Schliemann. , Drives, Affects, Behavior, 1965.
  • Keep your heart and arteries healthy: protect against heartbeat and hardening of the arteries; Effective prevention through natural Life and Heilweise , Falken-Verlag, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1933.
  • New studies on the forensic sperm detection , Würzburg, 1930. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Wenda Focke : William G. Netherlands. Psychiatrist of the persecuted. His time - his life - his work. A portrait. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1992, ISBN 3-88479-677-1 .
  • Wenda Focke:  Netherlands, William G .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 223 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Claudia Moisel: William G. Netherland (1904-1993) and the origins of the survivor syndrome. In: Bettina Bannasch, Helga Schreckenberger and Alan E. Steinweis (eds.): Exil und Shoah (= Exilforschung. Vol. 34). Text + Criticism, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86916-550-9 , pp. 108–124.
  • Uwe Henrik Peters : Psychiatry in exile: the emigration of dynamic psychiatry from Germany 1933–1939. Kupka, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-926567-04-X
  • Christian Pross: Making amends. The guerrilla war against the victims. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08502-9 (foreword from Netherlands and passim).
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Vol II, 2, Saur, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 863 f.
  • Thomas Hartwig , Hans-Joachim Roscher: Conversation with William Dutch. In: the same: The promised city. German-Jewish emigrants in New York. Conversations, impressions and pictures. Das Arsenal, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-921810-66-3 , pp. 157-168.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zvi Lothane : Soul murder and psychiatry. On the rehabilitation of Schreber , Bibliothek de Pschoanalyse, Psychosozial-Verlag Gießen 2004, chap. 8: How other Schreber interpreted, W. Dutch p. 502.
  2. ^ William G. Netherlands: The Schreber case: The psychoanalytic profile of a paranoid personality , p. 11.
  3. ↑ Morton Schatzman: The fear of the father . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-498-06107-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Netherlands, William G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Netherlands, Wilhelm; Netherlands, William Guglielmo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Schippenbeil East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1993
Place of death Englewood, New Jersey