Erwin Straus
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Erwin Straus (1891-1975), a phenomenologist and neurologist of European origin, helped to pioneer anthropological medicine and psychiatry, a holistic approach to medicine that is critical of mechanistic and reductionistic approaches to understanding and treating human beings. Some of his work can also be regarded as a precursor to or early version of neurophenomenology.
His books published in English include:
- Man, Time, and World: Two Contributions to Anthropological Psychology (1982, Humanities Press)
- Language and Language Disturbances (1974, Duquesne University Press)
- Psychiatry and Philosophy (1969, Springer)
- Phenomenology: Pure and Applied (1964, Duquesne University Press)
- On Obsession: A Clinical and Methodological Study (1987, Johnson Reprint Corp)
- Phenomenological Psychology (1966, Basic Books)
- Phenomenology of Memory (1970, Duquesne University Press)
[edit] External links
- Decade of the Person: Tribute to Erwin Straus MD by Brian Koehler
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