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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.
in English
Xwith Joerchel, A. (2018)., Introduction: finding a biography, in A. Joerchel & G. Benetka (eds.), Memories of Gustav Ichheiser, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-5.
(2018)., Seclusion: a safe place? remarks on the biography of an outsider, in A. Joerchel & G. Benetka (eds.), Memories of Gustav Ichheiser, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 9-22.
with Joerchel, A. (eds) (2018). Memories of Gustav Ichheiser: life and work of an exiled social scientist, Springer, Dordrecht.
(2016)., Observations on Karl and Charlotte Bühler's perspective of development, in D. Carré, J. Valsiner & S. Hampl (eds.), Representing development, London, Routledge, pp. 154-157.
with Joerchel, A. (2016)., Psychology as a phenomenological science, in J. Valsiner, G. Marsico, N. Chaudhary & V. Dazzani (eds.), Psychology as the science of human being, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 17-32.
(1998)., Scientific emigration, in W. Leinfellner & E. Köhler (eds.), Game theory, experience, rationality, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 379-386.