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From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism (2022)
Journal Article
Kauders, A. (2022). From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism. Antisemitism Studies, 6(2), 208-240. https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.6.2.02

This essay traces the recent critique of realistic conflict theory as it pertains to the study of antisemitism. In doing so, it will provide an overview of the arguments comprising the debate, outline the ways in which these arguments depend on speci... Read More about From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism.

West German Psychoanalysis in Post-Analytic Times: Navigating Demands for Self-Actualization, Self-Governance, and Social Change, 1968-1990 (2022)
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Kauders, A. D. (2023). West German Psychoanalysis in Post-Analytic Times: Navigating Demands for Self-Actualization, Self-Governance, and Social Change, 1968-1990. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 48(2), 197-219. https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2022.48.2.197

This essay critically engages with the view that governmentality defined the parameters of psychotherapy in the late twentieth century. Even though different therapeutic schools embraced the values of autonomy, authenticity, and self-control, the mea... Read More about West German Psychoanalysis in Post-Analytic Times: Navigating Demands for Self-Actualization, Self-Governance, and Social Change, 1968-1990.

From Particularism to Mass Murder: Nazi Morality, Antisemitism, and Cognitive Dissonance (2022)
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Kauders, A. (2022). From Particularism to Mass Murder: Nazi Morality, Antisemitism, and Cognitive Dissonance. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 36(1), 46-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcac011

Scholars of the Third Reich have recently begun to study the ethical standards of National Socialist antisemites. Literature on Nazi morality frames German antisemitism as an attempt to reshape the country's mores, but it pays insufficient attention... Read More about From Particularism to Mass Murder: Nazi Morality, Antisemitism, and Cognitive Dissonance.

Speculating About Society, Analyzing the Individual: Where Freudian Accounts of Antisemitism Go Wrong (2021)
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Kauders, A. (2021). Speculating About Society, Analyzing the Individual: Where Freudian Accounts of Antisemitism Go Wrong. Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung, 47(1), 30-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615

In January 1847, Branwell Brontë wrote a letter to his friend J. B. Leyland quoting from Lord Byron’s satirical epic Don Juan (1819–24). This was an unusual choice of allusion given that the topic is Byron’s feelings of longsuffering that Branwell us... Read More about Speculating About Society, Analyzing the Individual: Where Freudian Accounts of Antisemitism Go Wrong.

Agency, Free Will, Self-Constitution: New Concepts for Historians of German-Jewish History between 1914 and 1938? (2021)
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Kauders, A. (2021). Agency, Free Will, Self-Constitution: New Concepts for Historians of German-Jewish History between 1914 and 1938?. Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybab005

This article discusses recent work on German-Jewish agency between 1914 and 1938. To find out whether ‘agency’ might be a helpful category for examining the crises facing Central European Jewry in this period, the article addresses the subject from t... Read More about Agency, Free Will, Self-Constitution: New Concepts for Historians of German-Jewish History between 1914 and 1938?.

Negotiating Free Will: Hypnosis and Crime in Early Twentieth-Century Germany (2017)
Journal Article
Kauders, A. (2017). Negotiating Free Will: Hypnosis and Crime in Early Twentieth-Century Germany. Historical Journal, 60(4), 1047-1069. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x16000601

The history of free will has yet to be written. With few exceptions, the literature on the subject is dominated by legal and philosophical works, most of which recount the ideas of prominent thinkers or discuss hypothetical questions far removed from... Read More about Negotiating Free Will: Hypnosis and Crime in Early Twentieth-Century Germany.

The Social before Sociocognitive Theory: Explaining Hypnotic Suggestion in German-Speaking Europe, 1900-1960 (2017)
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Kauders, A. (2017). The Social before Sociocognitive Theory: Explaining Hypnotic Suggestion in German-Speaking Europe, 1900-1960. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 59(4), 422-439. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2016.1239062

The article intends to retrace and review German discourse on hypnotic suggestion from 1900 onward, demonstrating the variety of arguments advanced to account for the social relationship in the hypnotic setting well before the emergence of sociocogni... Read More about The Social before Sociocognitive Theory: Explaining Hypnotic Suggestion in German-Speaking Europe, 1900-1960.

Familienähnlichkeiten: Charisma und Hypnose als Beziehungsgeschichten (2016)
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Kauders, A. (2016). Familienähnlichkeiten: Charisma und Hypnose als Beziehungsgeschichten. Hypnose – Zeitschrift für Hypnose und Hypnotherapie, 11(1 + 2), 63-80

In seiner Beschreibung der Unterschiede zwischen Zustands- und Nichtzustandstheorien innerhalb der Hypnoseforschung differenziert der Sozialpsychologe Theodore Sarbin zwischen ‚happenings’ und ‚doings’. Der Beitrag greift diesen Gegensatz auf, um Par... Read More about Familienähnlichkeiten: Charisma und Hypnose als Beziehungsgeschichten.

Verführung, Hingabe, Auftrag: Hypnose und Verbrechen in Deutschland nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg (2015)
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Kauders, A. (2015). Verführung, Hingabe, Auftrag: Hypnose und Verbrechen in Deutschland nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Hypnose. Zeitschrift für Hypnose und Hypnotherapie,

Bereits die ersten Reaktionen auf den Mesmerismus zeugten von einem binären Denken, das Kontrolle und Kontrollverlust geschlechter- und klassenspezifisch interpretierte, sodass ein weit verbreitetes Bild entstehen konnte von bürgerlichen Hypnotiseure... Read More about Verführung, Hingabe, Auftrag: Hypnose und Verbrechen in Deutschland nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg.

Auf dem Weg zum neuen Menschen: Die Rezeption der Psychoanalyse in der frühen Kinderladenbewegung (2014)
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Kauders, A. (2014). Auf dem Weg zum neuen Menschen: Die Rezeption der Psychoanalyse in der frühen Kinderladenbewegung. LUZIFER-AMOR, 27, Article 7-24

Zusammenfassung: Ende der sechziger Jahre machte sich eine Gruppe von Studierenden auf, in so genannten Kinderläden eine neue Form der Erziehung zu erproben. Vor allem die frühe Kinderladenbewegung verfolgte einen radikal utopischen Ansatz, der zum n... Read More about Auf dem Weg zum neuen Menschen: Die Rezeption der Psychoanalyse in der frühen Kinderladenbewegung.

"PSYCHOANALYSIS IS GOOD, SYNTHESIS IS BETTER": THE GERMAN RECEPTION OF FREUD, 1930 AND 1956 (2011)
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Kauders, A. D. (2011). "PSYCHOANALYSIS IS GOOD, SYNTHESIS IS BETTER": THE GERMAN RECEPTION OF FREUD, 1930 AND 1956. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 47(4), 380-397. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20517

Frankfurt's decision to award Freud the Goethe Prize in 1930 as well as the same city's decision to celebrate Freud's 100th birthday in 1956 will allow us to trace specific traditions in the German encounter with psychoanalysis. The diachronic approa... Read More about "PSYCHOANALYSIS IS GOOD, SYNTHESIS IS BETTER": THE GERMAN RECEPTION OF FREUD, 1930 AND 1956.