[Developmental continuities of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Germany since 1939]

The history of psychoanalysis in Germany during the Second World War must be seen in the context of institutional and professional developments along the lines of the intersection of medicine and psychology during the first half of the twentieth century. The moral ambiguities of the integration of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy into the structures of modern industrial society were magnified and brutally supplemented in the course of the partial professionalization of these disciplines in Germany under the Nazi dictatorship. A study of the continuities in the history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Germany since 1939 can provide insight into the moral and practical vicissitudes of professionalism in modern society as well as into the social history of Germany under Hitler.