Frederick Redlich

Frederick Carl " Fritz" Redlich (born 2 June 1910 in Vienna, † January 1, 2004 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an Austrian- American physician.

Life

Redlich was born the son of Louis and Emma Redlich in Vienna. There he studied for his graduation at the University of Vienna psychology and medicine and worked in the internal department of the General Hospital of Vienna. Although he was raised Catholic, he found out at age 24 that he was originally of Jewish origin. During his studies he spent a year at Wittenberg College (now Wittenberg University) in Springfield, Ohio. After completing his residency training for neurologists and psychiatrists emigrated he and his wife, Elsa, also a doctor, in 1938 in the United States. In 1953 the couple divorced. In 1943 he took the U.S. citizenship.

In the United States Redlich devoted himself to psychiatry and became the founder of American social psychiatry. He was also Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Dean of the Medical Faculty of the elite Yale University. In 1977 he became a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Redlich was the recipient of numerous high honors and awards and is a member or chairman of national and international societies. He was the author and co-author of internationally recognized works in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy, as the co-authored with Daniel X. Freedman band theory and practice of psychiatry (The theory and practice of psychiatry ).

Redlich dealt for years with the Psychopathographie Adolf Hitler. His standard work avancierendes book Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet, he published at the age of 88 years.

Fritz Redlich was his second wife, the opera singer Herta Glaz (1910-2006) married.

Publications by Fritz Redlich

• Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-505782-1; German edition: Hitler. Diagnosis of destructive prophet, Werner Eichbauer, 2002, ISBN 3-901699-23-6