Gerhard Benetka

Professor of Psychology and Head of the Faculty of Psychology at the Sigmund Freud Private University with study sites in Vienna, Linz, Berlin and Milan; scientific director of a cultural psychology-oriented study program in psychology (Bachelor and Master program). Member of the German Society for Psychology and the Society for Cultural Psychology; Member of the Scientific Board of the journal Human Arenas. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture, and Meaning. Main Research Areas: History of Psychology and Psychoanalysis; philosophical and theoretical foundations of psychology. In 1995 he published his dissertation «Psychology in Vienna. Social History and History of Ideas of the Vienna Psychological Institute 1922-1938 ». G. Benetka is a specialist of the psychology in Austria in the 19th and 20th centuries and has published on this subject a large number of biographical and historical studies, interviews and theory-historical essays.

Introduction: finding a biography

2018

with Joerchel Amrei

in: Memories of Gustav Ichheiser, Dordrecht : Springer

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Seclusion: a safe place? remarks on the biography of an outsider

2018

in: Memories of Gustav Ichheiser, Dordrecht : Springer

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Zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft: Karl Bühlers Grundlegung der Psychologie

2018

with Slunecko Thomas

in: Karl Bühlers Krise der Psychologie, Dordrecht : Springer

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Observations on Karl and Charlotte Bühler's perspective of development

2016

in: Representing development, London : Routledge

Psychology as a phenomenological science

2016

with Joerchel Amrei

in: Psychology as the science of human being, Dordrecht : Springer

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Scientific emigration

1998

in: Game theory, experience, rationality, Dordrecht : Springer

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Psychoanalyse und Psychologie

1992

in: Siegfried Bernfeld oder Die Grenzen der Psychoanalyse, Frankfurt am Main : Stroemfeld

Wien ist anders

1991

with Brandl Gerda

Werkblatt 8/26

Der Einmarsch in die akademische Seelenlehre

1989

with Kienreich Werner

in: Willfährige Wissenschaft, Wien : Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik