MAX WERTHEIMER: Contributions in the field of mental health and psychopathology


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In contemporary psychology books, around the world, WERTHEIMERs major accomplishments are now treated as landmarks in the history due to his research contributions to the psychology of perception and thinking.

On the other hand, his work and influence in the research of neurobiological disorders, psychopathology and mental health related problems are hardly known. This might be due to the fact that his studies on aphasia, for example, were not published in ordinary scientific journals, and that several orther major contributions of WERTHEIMER were not published under his name, but under the name of associates of WERTHEIMER.

Here are some sources for WERTHEIMERs work and impact in these fields:

SCHULTE, Heinrich (1924): Versuch einer Theorie der paranoischen Eigenbeziehung und Wahnbildung. Psychologische Forschung, 5, pp. 1-23. [English version: see next entry]

LEVY, Erwin (1986): A Gestalt Theory of Paranoia. Comment and Translation of Heinrich Schulte. Gestalt Theory, 8, pp. 230-255.

LEVY, Erwin (1936): A Case of Mania with its Social Implications. Social Research, 3, pp. 488-493. [Web-published in full text: The Gestalt Archive; Deutsche Fassung / German version see STEMBERGER 2002]

LEVY, Erwin (1943): Some Aspects of the Schizophrenic Formal Disturbance of Thought. Psychiatry, 6, pp. 55-69. [Web-published in full text: The Gestalt Archive; Deutsche Fassung / German version see STEMBERGER 2002]

WERTHEIMER, Max: Understanding Psychotic's Speech - A Max Wertheimer Seminar Transcript by A. S. LUCHINS. Find it in the Gestalt Archive in Full Text!

SARRIS, Viktor & Michael WERTHEIMER (2001): Max WERTHEIMERs Research on Aphasia and Brain Disorders: A Brief Account. Gestalt Theory, 23 (4/2001), pp. 267-277.

CROCHETIÈRE, Kevin, Nelay VICKER, James PARKER, D. Brett KING, & Michael WERTHEIMER (2001): Gestalt Theory and Psychopathology. Gestalt Theory, 23 (2/2001), pp. 144-154.

STEMBERGER, Gerhard (2002): Psychische Störungen im Ich-Welt-Verhältnis. Gestalttheorie und psychotherapeutische Krankheitslehre. Vienna: Krammer. [ Contents, description and ordering info of this book]

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