Obituary for Helmut Thomä 1

In 1961 he is awarded the first Venia Legendi for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychoanalysis, conferring upon him lifetime permission to lecture in the subject at university - something in which he took particular pride.\n The future belongs to self-critical psychoanalysts who no longer whinge about...

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Published inInternational journal of psychoanalysis Vol. 96; no. 3; p. 911
Main Authors Geyer, Michael, Kächele, Horst
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.06.2015
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Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy
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Summary:In 1961 he is awarded the first Venia Legendi for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychoanalysis, conferring upon him lifetime permission to lecture in the subject at university - something in which he took particular pride.\n The future belongs to self-critical psychoanalysts who no longer whinge about their "impossible profession" and console themselves by having a special identity bestowed upon them by their respective group without any comprehensible, criteria-based reasoning. Helmut Thomeuroa published 40 exemplary clinical studies and pivotal theoretical works in the central mouthpiece of German psychoanalysis, the journal Psyche, in addition to penning a great many contributions to books and publishing additional books with his friend and colleague Neil Cheshire, including an omnibus volume on "Self, Symptoms and Psychotherapy" (1987), as well as important works on the intersubjective turning-point in psychoanalysis in German with Martin Altmeyer (2006).
ISSN:0020-7578
1745-8315