stematiker apostrophiert, deren Leistungen bestenfalls als uberholt angese hen werden, nicht selten jedoch auch als Hemmschuh fur die neuen Seh weisen einer psychodynamischen Psychiatrie mit tiefen psychologischen Theorien, Lehranalysen, Selbsterfahrungsgruppen u. a. m. Unberucksichtigt bleibt dabei meist, dass viele der neuen Lehren trotz der Betonung von Be griffen wie "Seele" oder "psychisch" im Grunde nur maskierte Formen einer modischen identitatstheoretischen Philosophie materialistischer Couleur darstellen (Koehler 1984). Gewiss ist gegen eine psychodynamische Ausbildung des psychiatri...

Bernstein, a Jewish bookseller in Berlin, narrates the story of his life for his grandson Louis, covering the period of the First World War, the Weimar Republic, and Hitler's rise to power in the Thirties. Relying on old journals that interweave more mundane events with rather eccentric insights into literary matters, he recounts his preoccupation with the work of Alfred Doblin, a Jewish novelist and psychiatrist. After reading "Berlin Alexanderplatz," Bernstein's life is forever transformed, and he finds hidden meanings in Doblin's various texts that in retrospect he interprets as a...

Four boys from the Bronx - Charlie, Sean, Dan and Fred - are students at St. Aloysius, an elite Jesuit college somewhere in New England. It's now sometime in the early 1950s, Pius XII is the Pope and the Catholic Church still marches to the beat of the decrees of the Council of Trent and First Vatican Council. Presently in their senior year, no longer are they the kind of Catholics they once were back in the Bronx. Dan and Fred seem to have radically distanced themselves from the faith, Charlie appears to be painfully vacillating in his belief, whereas Sean is more or less still a firm...