Franz Alexander

Franz Gabriel Alexander (Hungarian Ferenc Gábor Alexander, born January 22, 1891 in Budapest, † March 8, 1964 in Palm Springs, California ) was a psychoanalyst and physician.

He is referred to as the "father " of psychoanalytic psychosomatics and co-founded the psychoanalytic criminology. As the first training candidate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, he later became a teacher and a valued training analyst there. From 1919 to 1930 he lived in Berlin. There is a plaque dedicated to him.

In 1950 he summarized seven psychosomatic illnesses, which were later called Holy Seven.

Works

• Psychosomatic Medicine. Fundamentals and applications 3rd edition unchanged
• Irrational forces of our time: a study of the unconscious in politics and history. ( Translator's of Bernard Henry ). Stuttgart: . Klett, 1946 ( original title Our ​​Age of unreason )
• The criminal and his judges. A psychoanalytic insight into the world of those paragraphs. Frankfurt q.s., 1971.
• History of psychiatry. A Critical demolition d psychiatr. Theory and practice of d early history to the present. Zurich: Diana Verl, 1969 ( The History of psychiatry [ German ] ). .
• Psychoanalytic Pioneers of Franz Alexander ( Author), Samuel Eisenstein (Author ), Martin Grotjahn (Editor), Transaction Publishers, U.S. ( April 1995 ), ISBN 1-56000-815-6 (10), ISBN 978-1-56000-815-6 (13)

Online readable text excerpt ( English)

• The corrective emotional experience ( 1946) ( chapters 2, 4, and 17 of the book by Franz Alexander, Thomas M. French et al, Psychoanalytic Therapy: . Principles and Application New York:. Ronald Press, 1946) Franz Alexander