Erwin Straus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Erwin Straus

Phenomenologist

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1891

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 20-May-1975

Profession: psychiatrist, psychologist, university teacher

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Erwin Straus (11 November 1891, Frankfurt am Main – 20 May 1975, Lexington, Kentucky) was a German-American phenomenologist and neurologist who helped to pioneer anthropological medicine and psychiatry, a holistic approach to medicine that is critical of mechanistic and reductionistic approaches to understanding and treating human beings.
Some of his work can also be regarded as a precursor to or early version of neurophenomenology.
Straus taught at Black Mountain College.
His books published in English include: Man, Time, and World: Two Contributions to Anthropological Psychology (1982, Humanities Press) Language and Language Disturbances (1974, Duquesne University Press) Psychiatry and Philosophy (1969, Springer) Phenomenology: Pure and Applied (1964, Duquesne University Press) On Obsession: A Clinical and Methodological Study (1987, Johnson Reprint Corp) Phenomenological Psychology (1966, Basic Books) Phenomenology of Memory (1970, Duquesne University Press)