Viktor Tausk
Viktor Tausk · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Early psychoanalyst known for work on psychosis
1879, Zilina, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) — 1919, Vienna, Austria
Austria-Hungary · Austria
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Viktor Tausk was an early psychoanalyst and neurologist, a student and colleague of Sigmund Freud in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and among the first to apply psychoanalytic ideas to psychosis and schizophrenia. His paper on the 'influencing machine' in schizophrenia remains a classic of the field. He came from a German-speaking, secular Jewish family and died by suicide in 1919.
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Early psychoanalyst known for work on psychosis
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