August Aichhorn

August Aichhorn ( born July 27, 1878 in Vienna, † October 13, 1949 ) was an Austrian educator and psychoanalyst.

Life

August Aichhorn was first an elementary school teacher in Vienna. After the First World War, he tried modern pedagogy in institutions Upper Hollabrunn and St. Andrew on the Traisen ( 1918-1922 ). He presented there demonstrated that forced education no positive achievements brought in " reformatories ". The aggression in adolescents reasoned Aichhorn with a love deficit. He had the idea of ​​a " positive children's home ," run youth he met with love, attention and genuine interest. Aichhorn was official director of the Vienna urban welfare institutions, later head of the Vienna Psychoanalytic educational counseling, in wartime training analyst for physicians and psychologists, then professor in Vienna and president of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. He told Anna Freud's view that family education is superior to the institutionalized residential care.

He is considered the founder of psychoanalytic pedagogy and rely on him numerous internationally renowned educators ( Homer Lane, Alexander Neill ).

During the year 1932 August Aichhorn was recorded with Hans Zulliger in the circle of the editors of the Journal of psychoanalytic education.

Writings (selection )

• Neglected Youth: Psychoanalysis in caring education. Ten lectures on the first launch. With a foreword by Sigmund Freud. International Psychoanalytic Verlag, Wien 1925; last: 11, unchanged edition. Huber, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-456-84260-0 ( published also in English, French and Spanish).
• Educational counseling. In: Journal of Psychoanalytic Education. 1932, pp. 445-488.
• Educational counseling and educational assistance: 12 lectures on psychoanalytic education. From August Aichhorn estate. Huber, Bern 1959; Paperback edition: Rowohlt, Reinbek 1972.
• Psychoanalysis and education counseling ( = contributions to child psychotherapy. Vol. 7). Reinhardt, Munich / Basel 1970; Paperback edition: Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
• Who was August Aichhorn. Letters, documents, Unpublished work. Selected and zusammgestellt by Thomas Aichhorn. Löcker & Wögenstein, Vienna 1976.
• Anna Freud, August Aichhorn: " Psychoanalysis can only flourish there, where there is freedom of thought ." Correspondence from 1921 to 1949. Edited and annotated by Thomas Aichhorn. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main, 2012.