Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Scheer, PJ.
History of Psychosomatics in Austria. Observations from a Contemporary Witness-Part 3
PADIATR PADOL. 2024;
Doi: 10.1007/s00608-024-01186-5
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- In many Austrian books and publications, the period between 1933 and 1945 is omitted. In Austria the German occupation and integration as Ostmark in the Third Reich changed the situation of the mainly Jewish members of the Wiener Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung and the Adlerian psychotherapists. In this paper the role of the Institut fuer psychologische Forschung und Psychotherapie led by M.H. Goering, cousin of the Nazi leader Hermann Goering, is mentioned. The institute made a continuous psychotherapeutic presence possible, even S. Freud was mentioned positively, but it offered its service to the "Luftwaffe" and supported the mass murder of psychiatric patients. This paper centers around two outstanding researchers who sought exile: my teacher Rudi Eckstein a psychoanalyst based in Los Angeles who came every other summer semester to Vienna starting in 1977. At the Karolinen Kinderspital, a community-owned paediatric hospital, he taught us how to understand interaction using sometimes only the first sentence of the reporting colleague. He showed in many publications his understanding and empathy for therapists, parents and children. Outstanding research was also contributed by Hans Seyle an Austro-Hungarian physician and chemist. He observed-during his internship in Hungary-that "really ill" patients had a specific appearance, regardless of the illness. Years later adrenalin was identified as a hormone that induces a reaction called "stress", which changes a person's bodily and psychological appearance. Thus the concept of stress as a new entity was born: a cycle between emotions and bodily reactions. Hans Seyle extended his research and "stress" became an explanation for a variety of disorders. Thanks to these pioneers, psychosomatic theory and therapy have become a part of clinical practice.
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