Kurt Goldstein

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Kurt Goldstein
Born November 6, 1878
Kattowitz, Province of Silesia
Died September 19, 1965
Nationality German
Fields Neurology
Institutions Institute for Research on the After-Effects of Brain Injury
Columbia University
Tufts University, Brandeis University
Doctoral advisor Carl Wernicke
Known for Holistic Method, Organismic theory
Influenced Frederick Perls, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Paul Tillich, Georges Canguilhem

Kurt Goldstein (November 6, 1878 - September 19, 1965) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a pioneer in modern neuropsychology. He created a holistic theory of the organism based on Gestalt theory which deeply influenced the development of Gestalt therapy. His most important book in German Der Aufbau des Organismus (1934) has been published again in English: The Organism (1995) with an introduction by Oliver Sacks.

Goldstein was co-editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology.

Goldstein emigrated to the USA in 1935 and became a citizen of the US in 1940.

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  • Goldstein, Kurt. (1934/1995). The organism: A holistic approach to biology derived from pathological data in man. New York: Zone Books. ISBN 0-94-229997-3.  [1]
  • Goldstein, Kurt. (1940). Human Nature in the Light of Psychopathology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Goldstein, Kurt; Scheerer, Martin.(1941): Abstract and Concrete Behavior: An Experimental Study With Special Tests. In: Psychological Monographs, ed. by John F. Dashell, Vol. 53/1941, No. 2 (whole No. 239), S. 1-151.
  • Goldstein, Kurt. (1942) After effects of brain injuries in war. New York: Grune & Stratton.
  • Goldstein, Kurt., Hanfmann, E., Rickers-Ovsiankina (1944). Case Lanuti: Extreme Concretization of Behavior Due to Damage of the Brain Cortex. In: Psychological Monographs, ed. by John F. Dashell, Vol. 57/1944, No. 4 (whole No. 264), S. 1-72.
  • Goldstein, Kurt., Scheerer, M., Rothmann, E. (1945). A Case of “Idiot Savant”: An Experimental Study of Personality Organization. In: Psychological Monographs, ed. by John F. Dashell, Vol. 58/1945, No. 4 (whole No. 269), S. 1-63.
  • Goldstein, Kurt. (1948). Language and Language Disturbances: Aphasic symptom complexes and their significance for medicine and theory of language. New York: Grune & Stratton.
  • Goldstein, Kurt. (1967). Selected writings. ed., Aron Gurwitsch, Else M. Goldstein.

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Two articles that discuss Goldstein's influence on and contribution to Gestalt therapy:

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