Kurt Goldstein (* 6 November 1878 in Kattowitz; "† 19 September 1965 in New York), neurologist and psychiatrist, is considered as a pioneer of the neuro psychology and the Psychosomatik.

Life

Kurt Goldstein was born as seventh of nine children of a Jewish family in Upper Silesia. It studied first philosophy, changed then however to the medicine and locked 1903.

From 1906 to 1914 he worked in the psychiatric hospital of king mountain, during the 1. World war developed it a hospital for soldiers person suffering from a brain injury, whom it led until 1930. After Hitler's seizure of power 1933 Goldstein was taken prisoner briefly and forced then to the emigration. The Rockefeller Foundation supported it one year long in Amsterdam, while whose he wrote its Hauptwerk the structure of the organism, which was published in the year after in Germany. 1935 emigrierte Goldstein into the USA, where he lived up to his death 1965 and worked (among other things at the Universities of Harvard and Columbia) and accepted 1940 the American nationality.

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Its Hauptwerk carries the title the structure of the organism (1934). Its life's work was connected since its early common research work in Frankfurt and Berlin with the shape psychologist yellow and the co-editor shank of the psychological research (together with max of Wertheimer, Wolfgang charcoal burner and Kurt Koffka) closely with the Gestalt psychology and/or the shape theory. Kurt Goldstein belonged to the founders of the Humanisti psychology, was co-editor journal of the OF Humanistic Psychology. The topicality of its holistic beginning is documented also by the new edition of its Hauptwerks in English language with an introduction of olive bag.

Works

• Goldstein, Kurt (1925): The symptom, its emergence and meaning for our view of the building and of the function of the nervous system. In: Archives for psychiatry, 76, 1925, P. 84-108.
• Goldstein, Kurt (1927): Over Aphasie. (Separate print from Swiss archives for neurology and psychiatry, XIX, 1 and 2, 1926) Zurich; Leipzig; Berlin: Orell
• Goldstein, Kurt (1934): The structure of the organism. Introduction to biology with special consideration of the experiences at ill humans. Hague: Nijhoff.
• Godstein, Kurt (1947): Human Nature into the Light OF Psychopathology. Cambridge: Harvard University press. 2. Edition.
• Goldstein, Kurt (1971): Selected PAPER/selected writings. OD. by Aron Gurwitsch, Else M. Goldstein striking DEK, William E. striking DEK. Hague: Nijhoff.
• Goldstein, Kurt/yellow, Hrsg. (1920): Psychological analyses of brain-pathological cases. First volumes. Leipzig: Barth.
• Goldstein, Kurt/Hanfmann, Eugenia/Rickers Ovsiankina (1944): Case Lanuti: Extreme Concretization OF Behavior Due ton of Damage OF the Brain Cortex. In: Psychological of mono graph, OD. by John F. the-brightly, volume. 57/1944, No. 4 (whole No. 264), P. 1-72.
• Goldstein, Kurt/Scheerer, Martin (1941): Abstract and Concrete Behavior: At experimental Study With Special test. In: Psychological of mono graph, OD. by John F. the-brightly, volume. 53/1941, No. 2 (whole No. 239), P. 1-151.
• Goldstein, Kurt/Scheerer, Martin/Rothmann, Eva (1945): A Case OF "“idiot Savant"”: At experimental Study OF Personality Organization. In: Psychological of mono graph, OD. by John F. the-brightly, volume. 58/1945, No. 4 (whole No. 269), P. 1-63.

Literature

• Uta Noppeney (2000): Abstract attitude. Kurt Goldstein in the area of conflict of neurology, psychology and philosophy. Peppering castle: King living & Neumann.
• Anne Harrington (2002): The search for entireness. The history of biological-psychological entireness teachings: From the empire to the new Age movement. Reinbek with Hamburg, Rowohlt

Over the Goldsteins' influence on the Gestalt therapy:

• Achim Votsmeier (1995): Gestalt therapy and the "“Organismi theory"” - the influence Kurt Goldstein. - http://www.gestaltpsychotherapie.de/goldstein95.html

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