Messenger Between East and West: Erna Hoch, Martin Heidegger and the beginnings of Daseinanalysis. Part 1
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https://doi.org/10.65828/hq7xzw69Keywords:
Psychotherapy, daseinsanalysis, existential analysis, Indian psychiatry, Erna Hoch, Martin Heidegger, Medard BossAbstract
A little-known figure in the history of therapeutic daseinanalysis is the Swiss psychiatrist Erna Hoch (1919-2003). This, the first part of a two-part paper, recounts Hoch’s life, most of which was spent in India introducing modern psychiatry there, her relationship with Medard Boss and her understanding of Heidegger’s thought as the basis of the daseinanalytic approach to the treatment of troubled individuals.
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References
. See also an entry on Hoch in ‘Icons of Indian psychiatry’ Journal of Indian Psychiatry. 2010, 52 (6): 147.
. Frankl, V. (1986). The Doctor and the Soul [Ärtzliche Seelsorger]. New York: Random House.
. A Psychiatrist Discovers India. 128-9.
. These exchanges are recounted in great detail in Hoch’s Messenger between East and West, in Sources and Resources, 249-93. A German version, ‘Bote zwischen Ost und West’ was published in Daseinsanalyse. 2 (1), 1985: 1-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000456097
. As we will see, Hoch later worked with the same guru that Boss had found, Govind [Gobind] Kaul (1896-1973).
. Here Boss’sPsychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis, which had just appeared, is cited.
. Here quoting Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis. 40.
. Here Hoch refers to Über den Humanismus (1947). 29 [= GA 9: 331].
. The Curative Community. 244-7.
. Man in Community. 255-6.
