Harald Schultz-Hencke

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Lehrbuch der Traumanalyse, 1949

Harald Julius Alfred Carl-Ludwig Schultz-Hencke (18 August 1892,

psychotherapist. After an initial introduction to psychoanalysis, with Sandor Rado
as psychoanalyst, he was excluded from the German Society of Psychoanalysis because of, among other things, his divergent views on sexuality.

Schultze-Hencke was the son of Dankmar Schultz-Henke[1][circular reference] a chemist who was the founder of the photographic institute at the Lette-Verein and Rosa Zingler, a graphologist who had written the libretto to the opera "Die Sibylle von Tivoli" by Alfred Sormann and who was rumoured to be an illegitimate daughter of King Edward VII.[2]

Career in psychotherapy

In 1933, like several non-Jewish psychotherapists (Felix Boehm, Carl Mueller-Braunschweig and Werner Kemper) he helped set up the "

Nazi regime
and promoted a “New German soul medicine," a psychotherapy for Germans. After the war, his participation in this institute created controversy in professional circles such as the International Psychoanalytical Association.

With other psychotherapists and analysts who had left or had been excluded from other psychoanalytic organizations, he started the DPV (Deutsche Psychoanalytische Vereinigung). After numerous debates regarding whether or not these analysts should join the

Neopsychanalyse
." "Neopsychanalyse" or neopsychoanalysis is a psychotherapeutic technique thus named by Schultz-Hencke.

Influence of Leibnizian symbolic thought

In one of his books, Schultz-Hencke had asserted that all psychotherapy should be submitted to the

infantile sexuality
, etc. So, in a way, the dualistic view of Freudian psychoanalysis is challenged in favor of a monistic view (and thus does not include notions of conflict between psychic entities, etc.).

Schultz-Hencke also wanted to subject the

statistical studies. To some extent, this criticism joined that of Karl Popper and other more modern scientists who, before anything else, advocated quantitative analysis and, thus, statistics. The treatment technique advocated by Schultz-Hencke was subsequently developed by Helmut Bach, among others, who progressively demarcated the ideas of its founder to create a "psychoanalysis" within the limits of practices imposed by the IPA; psychotherapists such as Franz Alexander, Karen Horney, René Laforgue and Erich Fromm
have contributed significantly to this endeavor.

Publications (selected)

References

  1. ^ de:Dankmar Schultz-Hencke
  2. ^ International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: "Schultz-Hencke, Harald Julius Alfred Carl-Ludwig (1892–1953)", Thomson Gale, 2005

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