Adolf Meyer (1866-1950)
Adolf Meyer was born on September 13, 1866 in Niederweningen, Switzerland, and died March 17th, 1950 at the age of 83. Adolf is the son of a Zwinglian minister. Adolf was trained as a neurologist under Auguste Forel at the University of Zurich. In the course of his studies, he spent a year abroad in Edinburgh, London, and Paris, where he worked under both John Hughlings Jackson and J-M Charcot. In 1892 Adolf moved to the United States after receiving his doctoral degree where he proceeded to become what is now known as the dominant figure in American psychiatry. He was an influential psychiatrist, neurologist, neuropathologist, and neuroanatomist taking part in multiple areas of medical studies. Meyer contributed significantly to the medical literature on psychiatry by writing papers; Adolf 's papers were collected and published in Collected Papers (1950-1952).
When arriving in the United States he continued to go to University of Chicago, where he lectured on and practiced neurology. Adolf Meyer participated in the positions of a Neuropathologist, he took part in different positions at different institutes. While at Kanakee State Hospital in Illinois, he was the neuropathologist, Adolf was the director at Worecester State Hospital in Massachusetts, and was Chief of the Pathological Institutes of New York 's State Mental Hospital. In 1908 a Medical School was established and Adolf took on the responsibility of the professorship. While at Kankakee,
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Germany. He received a medical degree and treated psychological disorders. Freud had many theories, but for the theory of evil, he believed that human’s purpose in
Hermann Ebbinghaus was born on January 24, 1850, to Lutheran merchants in Barmen, Germany. At the age of 17, he entered the University of Bonn, where he developed an avid interest in philosophy. However, his studies were temporarily interrupted in 1870 at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, when he enlisted in the Prussian army. After the Franco-Prussian War he continued his philosophical studies at Bonn, completing a dissertation on Eduard von Hartmann's Philosophy of the Unconscious, and received his doctorate in 1873.
Emil Kraepelin was a German physiatrist who became the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, and Psychopharmacology. He was born in 1856, Neusreletiz in Northern Germany, he graduated and received his M.D. from the University of Wurzburg. Emil began his work in the field of psychopharmacology at Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory at Leipzig University. Later, Kraepelin became the head of a clinic at the University of Dorpat where he began to study the clinical history of his patients with mental illnesses. It was then that he became interested in studying how the course of illnesses and the patterns of symptoms can help identify psychiatric disorders. Kraepelin began to view mental illness evident on individuals in a “clinical” view rather than through the
He drew a number of incredibly vivid supporters whom became the heart of the psychoanalytic movement. While he was flourishing with what he had accomplished, he was incapable of agreeing criticism and was known for objecting civilians that did not concede with him and subsequently went onto towards encounter competing institutes of thought. (Storr, 2001)
Adolph Herrman Kohrs was born on February 4, 1847 in Wuppertal, Germany. In 1862, his family moved to Dortmund where he signed a three year article of apprenticeship to the Henry Wenker Brewery. Even though this job lead to later fame and fortune, Adolph’s parents died which left him as an orphan at a very young age. Having to support himself financially, Adolph completed his apprenticeship and continued working as a paid employee with the Wenker Brewery until May of 1867. He then worked at breweries in Kassel, Berlin, and Uelzen in Germany.
On April 20, 1889, a demon was brought into this world. His name was Adolf Hitler. He was born in the family quarters of the Pommer Inn in Braunau, a small city on the Austrian border. The child was unhealthy and his mother, Klara, worried that young Adolf would not survive. Klara provided much love and attention to her baby, which Adolf would later take advantage of to get what he wanted (Smith 50). Despite his self-centeredness, Adolf held a deep bond with his mother which united them throughout his childhood. On the other hand, Alois, Adolf’s father, failed to play an important role in Adolf’s development. Alois spent the majority of his time away from the customs station with his friends
Born in the Austrian town of Braunau on April 20, 1889, Adolf was the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. By 1900, young Adolf's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory school or the technical/scientific Realschule. Because the technical/scientific Realschule had a course in drawing, Adolf enrolled in there. Adolf suffered from frequent lung infections, and he quit school at the age of 16, partially the result of ill health, but mainly the result of poor schoolwork. In 1906, Adolf traveled Vienna to seek his fortune, but he wasn't able to get admission to any prestigious art school. Hitler spent six years there, living on a
Adolf Hitler, was born in Austria, April 20th, 1889. His upbringing, took rapid shifts. From periods of exhaustion, to outright terror inflicted on the man that was to later be known as one of the most despised figures. Certainly, the discussion of this often regarded as "genocidal" and "authoritarian" figure is hard to accomplish with the rapid growth of the pursuit in the leftist academia. However, with this man being ever so present in mainstream society, it's important that his charisma, intelligence, nationalist beliefs, and his love for the citizens of his nation be covered properly.
Sigmund Freud was born into a modest Jewish family in 1856 in Freiberg, who eventually relocated to Vienna in 1860. After a victorious graduation, Freud enrolled into the Medical Faculty at Vienna. Even though, he was avid about his new area of education, he postponed his completion in order to chase his interest in employment as a research assistant in the physiological workroom of Ernst Brücke. Later, in 1885, Freud had the chance to travel to train in Paris for several months beneath Jean-Martin Charcot, a recognized neurologist who focused in the study of emotion and weakness to hypnosis. Not too long after traveling back home, he established his psychoanalytic practice and shaped the many theoretic ideas that made him notorious throughout Europe and the United States. In 1905, soon after Freud distributed one of his first major pieces titled,
Adolf was a good student in elementary and got good grades. When he reached high school his studies dropped, and he dropped out of school when he was
He learned experimental methodology under his guidance and some of his works came directly from Wundtian psychology. This paper will discuss some of his greatest discoveries such as his establishment in clinical observation. As well as the importance that Emil Kraepelin had on the taxonomy of psychiatric disorders and how his idea for this came about. It will also review his findings on bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Kraepelin also founded some ideas on what later on came to be known as Alzheimer’s disease.
Psychologist, psychoanalyst, doctor of medicine, and author, Sigmund Freud’s contributions to the world of science and psychology were far from limited. The self and widely regarded scientist was born in Friedberg in 1856 where he lived before moving to Vienna, Germany, where he would later produce founding revelations at the birth of psychology as a science. From his beginnings, Freud focused on psychopathology and the conscious mind (Jones, 1949). The renowned “Father of Psychoanalysis” created a pathway and a foundation for psychology, influencing the world of psychology from its birth to modern day practice. Freud’s delve into the unconscious, dreams, psychosexual development, and the id, ego, and super-ego, are just a limited number of his studies that greatly influenced numerous psychologists and theories of modern psychology. One of his earliest practices and most accredited work dealt with psychoanalysis specifically. Though this practice is seldom used in modern psychology in the treatment of psychological disorders, it assuredly carried great influence in the development of modern practices of psychological theories. Freud’s creation of psychoanalysis exceeded his professional career, influencing modern psychologists and theories, one specifically being ego psychology, that was founded in the mid 20th century of modern
Viktor Emil Frankl was born on March, 26th 1905, at Czeringassa 7, in Leopoldstadt, in Vienna Austria, where Sigmund Freud and Alfred Alder also grew up (Klingberg, 2014). He was the middle child out of three children. His older brother, Walter was two and a half years older, and his younger sister, Stella, was four years younger. His mother was Elsa Frankl, was a polish woman from Prague with a gentle manner. His father, Gabriel Frankl, had been a hard working man who was the Director of Social Affairs (Redsand, 2006). By the time Frankl was four years old he knew he wanted to be a doctor and he pursued that interest while into high school. He took classes focused on psychology and philosophy. He began corresponding with Freud when he was
Sigmund Freud was born on the sixth of May in 1856 in what is now Pribor in the Czech Republic, or at the time, Freiberg, a rural town in Moravia. The firstborn son of a merchant, Freud’s parents made an effort to foster his intellectual capacities despite being faced with financial difficulties. From an early age Freud had many interests and talents, but his career choices were limited away from his passion of medical research due to his family’s Jewish background, even though he was non-practicing, and his limited funds.
Alfred Adler is one of the leading contributors to the discipline of psychology. Adler is among the pioneer contributors to the field of psychotherapy together with Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Adler was born in Vienna, Austria in the year 1870 and as a toddler; he suffered from rickets and was unable to walk until he was around four years (Eckstein &