Jan Ehrenwald

Jan Ehrenwald (13 March 1900 – 15 June 1988) was a Czech-American psychiatrist and psychotherapist, most known for his work in the field of parapsychology.[1] His work largely focused on extrasensory perception and its supposed implications for psychoanalysis.[2]

Career

Ehrenwald studied medicine at the University of Prague. He taught psychiatry at the University of Vienna (1927-1931), University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital (1948-1950) and State University of New York (1950-1953). He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research and was a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.[3]

Reception

Ehrenwald's belief that telepathy had been successfully demonstrated was not accepted by the scientific community. Critics state that Ehrenwald's statements were based on conjecture, not solid facts.[4][5][6]

His research was well received by parapsychologists. Arthur Deikman, J. B. Rhine and Ian Stevenson have positively reviewed Ehrenwald's books.[7][8][9]

Works
  • Telepathy and Medical Psychology, W. W. Norton, 1948
  • From Medicine Man to Freud, 1956
  • Psychotherapy: Myth and Method, 1966
  • New Dimensions of Deep Analysis, 1975
  • History of Psychotherapy: From Magic Healing to Encounter, Jason Aronson, 1976
  • The ESP Experience: A Psychiatric Validation, 1978
gollark: In my experience, it tends to come out with vaguely coherent stuff which looks vaguely as if it's from the same thing, but doesn't really hold together very well.
gollark: What does "mean something" *mean*, though?
gollark: It generates them itself *based on* random stuff on the internet.
gollark: There's a "STOP DOING MATH" one too, is this part of a series? Can I find *others* somewhere?
gollark: I play modded, so I don't have to bother with actually manually mining for very long.

References
  1. "Jan Ehrenwald, Psychoanalyst, 88". New York Times.
  2. Frank W. Finger. (1948). Telepathy and Medical Psychology. Jan Ehrenwald. The Quarterly Review of Biology 23, no. 4: 398-399.
  3. "Jan Ehrenwald". Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology with Directory and Glossary.
  4. Anonymous (1948). Telepathy and Medical Psychology. The New England Journal of Medicine 239: 799-800.
  5. P. L. Heath. (1948). Telepathy and Medical Psychology. Mind 57: 392.
  6. "New Dimensions of Deep Analysis. Jan Ehrenwald". The Spectator.
  7. J. B. Rhine. "Telepathy and Medical Psychology by Jan Ehrenwald". The Scientific Monthly. Vol. 66, No. 6 (Jun., 1948), p. 525.
  8. Arthur Deikman. (1979). The ESP Experience: A Psychiatric Validation. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 167: 769
  9. Ian Stevenson. (1980). The ESP Experience: A Psychiatric Validation. American Journal of Psychiatry 137: 271-272.
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