Psychotherapy in the Third Reich.

C. G. Jung's involvement in the professional politics of psychotherapy in Nazi Germany was not a matter only of sympathy for and collaboration with Nazism. Jung's participation in the affairs of professionally endangered and ambitious psychotherapists under the advantageous leadership of a relative of the powerful Hermann Göring was both significant and limited in time and space. While Jungians found a place at the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Berlin between 1936 and 1945, psychoanalysts and other psychotherapists-- purged of practitioners who were Jewish--advanced their interests and practice in ways that indirectly and directly supported the mobilization of German society for Nazi purposes of conquest and war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]