David Bakan

David Bakan ( born April 23, 1921 in New York City; † 18 October 2004 in Toronto ) was an American psychologist.

Life

After attending Brooklyn College Bakan studied from 1942 psychology at Indiana University in 1944 and put his Master examination. He received his doctorate in 1948 at the Ohio State University at Floyd Carlton Dockeray in aviation psychology, a field of application of industrial psychology. His academic career took him to the University of Missouri and University of Chicago, then at Harvard University, and finally to Canada at York University.

Bakan was a representative of Humanistic Psychology. It was 1970/71 President of the History Division of the American Psychological Association, besides, he was also for one year, Head of Division for " Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology " and the Division for " Humanistic Psychology ". Bakan 1991 emeritus. He died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

Bakan and Millie Blynn married in 1948 and had six children: Joseph, Deborah, Abigail, Jonathon, Daniel and Jacob.

Writings (selection )

  • Man in conflict: psychoanalytical, sociological and religious aspects of anthropology, Munich: Kaiser, 1976 ISBN 3-459-01055- X
  • Maimonides ' cure of souls: medieval precursor of psychoanalysis, 2009 About the medieval philosopher Maimonides
  • Maimonides on prophecy: a commentary on selected chapters of the Guide of the perplexed, 1991.
  • And They Took Themselves wives: the emergence of patriarchy in Western civilization, 1979
  • Slaughter of the innocents. a study of the battered child phenomenon, 1971
  • The abuse of children, 1975
  • Disease, pain, and sacrifice; toward a psychology of suffering, 1968
  • Psychology and religion; a contemporary dialogue by Joseph Havens, 1968
  • On method: toward a reconstruction of psychological investigation, 1967
  • The duality of human existence: Isolation and communion in Western one, 1966
  • The duality of human existence: an essay on psychology and religion, 1966
  • Sigmund Freud and the Jewish mystical tradition, Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1958
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