Kurt Goldstein owed the one-to-one relationship of brain area function
Kurt Goldstein (Katowice, November 6, 1878 - New York, September 19, 1965) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist, pioneer in neuropsychology. Lifecycle
Kurt Goldstein was born as seventh of nine children in a Jewish family. His mother was a cousin of, among others, the neurologist Richard Cassirer and the philosopher Ernst Cassirer. After graduating from Philosophy and Literature in Heidelberg, he studied in medicine in 1903 in Breslau. From 1906 until the start of the First World War he worked in the psychiatric clinic of Koningsbergen. After that he worked with soldiers with brain injury in Frankfurt until 1930. In 1929 he became a professor of neurology at the University of Frankfurt. In 1930 Goldstein moved to Berlin to lead the neurological department. After the Nazi power takeover in 1933, he was arrested and abused by the SA. Forced Germany to leave, he settled in Amsterdam. Here he wrote his magnum opus Der Aufbau des Organismus. In 1935 Goldstein left for the United States. He acquired American citizenship in 1940 and worked at Harvard University, Tufts University, Brandeis University, and Columbia University. Scientific work
For the work of Goldstein, the research with gestational psychologist Adhémar Gelb in Frankfurt and Berlin was very important. Goldstein belongs to the founders of humanistic psychology and was a member of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. He was one of the first to criticize the fact that many focus only on the relationship between brain area function. In 1995, Der Aufbau des Organism was translated into English as The organism: A holistic approach to biology derived from pathological data in man with an introduction to Oliver Sacks. Working (selection)
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