John W. Thompson : psychiatrist in the shadow of the Holocaust

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Label

John W. Thompson : psychiatrist in the shadow of the Holocaust

Title remainder

psychiatrist in the shadow of the Holocaust

Statement of responsibility

Paul J. Weindling

Creator

• Weindling, Paul

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical
• Biography
• Electronic books
• Germany -- Nuremberg
• History, 20th Century
• MEDICAL -- Mental Health
• MEDICAL -- Psychiatry | General
• Nuremberg Medical Trial (Germany : 1946-1947)
• Nuremberg Medical Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1947
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology | General
• Physicians
• Psychiatrists
• Psychiatrists -- Biography
• Psychiatry -- history
• SCIENCE -- History
• Thompson, John W., (John West), 1906-1965
• Thompson, John W., (John West), 1906-1965
• War Crimes -- history
• 1946-1947

Genre

• Electronic books
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi human experiments prompted him to seek a humane basis for physician-patient relations. As a military scientific intelligence officer in 1945, Thompson was the first to name 'medical war crimes' as a special category for prosecution. His investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg Medical Trials, and for the novel idea of 'informed consent.' Yet, Thompson has remained little-known figure, despite his many scientific, literary, and religious connections. This book traces Thompson's life from his birth in Mexico, through his studies at Stanford, Edinburgh, and Harvard, and his service in the Canadian Air Force. It reconstructs his therapeutic work with Unesco in Germany and his time as a Civil Rights activist in New York, where he developed his concept of holistic medicine. Thompson was close to authors like Auden and Spender and inspirational religious figures like Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche. He drew on ideas of Freud, Jung, and Buber. The philosophical and religious dimensions of Thompson's response to Holocaust victims' suffering are key to this study, which cites accounts of psychiatrists, students and patients who knew Thompson personally, war crimes prosecution records, and unpublished personal papers"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Rochester studies in medical history

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

N$T

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Rochester studies in medical history,