The “Longest Hatred” Explained: Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Antisemitism
(2024)
Journal Article
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Wie schreibt man eine Geschichte der Psychoanalyse? Zu Michael Schröters Auf eigenem Weg (2023)
Journal Article
Anti-Anti. Facts about the Jewish Question (2023)
Book Chapter
Foreword
Enmity Explained: The History of Emotions and the Psychology of Antisemitism (2023)
Journal Article
From Place to Race and Back Again: The Jewishness of Psychoanalysis Revisited (2022)
Book Chapter
From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism (2022)
Journal Article
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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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)
Journal Article
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.
No Country for Old Minds: The Psychology of West Germany’s Democratization (2022)
Book Chapter
Speculating About Society, Analyzing the Individual: Where Freudian Accounts of Antisemitism Go Wrong (2021)
Journal Article
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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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?.
Leben im Schatten der Shoah: Juden im geteilten Deutschland (1945-1989) (2021)
Book Chapter
The Psychology of Antisemitism Revisited (2020)
Book Chapter
Felix Deutsch, in: Alexandra Geisthövel and Bettina Hitzer (2019)
Book Chapter
The Jewish Community (2018)
Book Chapter
The Jews in German Society (2018)
Book Chapter
Negotiating Free Will: Hypnosis and Crime in Early Twentieth-Century Germany (2017)
Journal Article
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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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.