Paul Lerner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Lerner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Lerner |
| SIGNATURE | LERNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3638-3475 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Robin Judd. Between Two Worlds
Stefanie Coché, Psychiatric Institutions and Society
Journal Article Stefanie Coché, Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the Third Reich, the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963 Get access Stefanie Coché, Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the Third Reich, the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963, translated by Alex Skinner, Lond…
Babylon Berlin
Babylon Berlin (henceforth BB ) premiered in Germany on the pay channel Sky TV in October 2017 and in the United States on the streaming service Netflix in January 2018. It is based on Volker Kutscher's series of crime novels set in late Weimar Republic and early Nazi-era Berlin. At its center are the lives and investigations of the laconic and tormented police detective Gereon Rath and his charismatic and irrepressible assistant Charlotte (Lotte…
Final Sale in Berlin
The Rag Race
The Mind of the Nation
The Mind of the Nation: Volkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955, by Egbert Klautke. New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2073. vii, 788. $72.00 US (cloth). This concise and lucid book makes the case that scholars have consistently mischaracterized and unappreciated Volkerpsychologie, a now obscure but once robust set of approaches to understanding national or collective psychology. The idea that there is a German character, an Austrian Mind, or a…
Behind the Screens
Pictured, clockwise: Hanns Eisler, Heinrich and Nelly Mann at the beach, Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger in Nogales, Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger at the Villa Aurora, Thomas Mann and Katia Mann, and Lud
Circulation and representation
This essay looks at the problem of Jews and cosmopolitanism from the perspective of consumer culture in modern Germany. It focuses on German department stores, the great majority of which were owned by Jews, and which were stationary sites for the convergence of goods, styles, people and capital from all over the world. The essay then traces discourses on and representations of circulation across a variety of media and genres, including departmen…
Traumatic Pasts
Round Table Introduction
The articles that follow were originally presented as a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, in December 2006. I served as chair and commentator on that panel, and the
An All-Consuming History? Recent Works on Consumer Culture in Modern Germany
In a 2001 essay, the introduction to a special journal issue on consumption in twentieth-century Germany, historians Alon Confino and Rudy Koshar noted the relative lack of scholarship on consumption and consumerism in European, especially German, historiography, as compared to the explosion of interest in the topic among historians of the United States. For Confino and Koshar, this disjuncture appears all the more remarkable in view of the centr…
Hysterical Men
"Paul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how these concepts were swept up into debates about Germany's national health, economic productivity, and military strength in the years surrounding World War I. From a growing concern with industrial accidents in the 1880s through the shell shock "epidemic" of the war, male hysteria seemed to bespeak the failings of German masculi…
Hysterical Men
Traumatic Pasts
Traumatic Pasts, originally published in 2001, offers a variety of perspectives on mental trauma in war, medicine, culture and society in modern European and American history. Its primary goals are: to provide a generous sampling of the best of the historical scholarship about trauma; to indicate the empirical, analytical and methodological scope of this work; and to present some of the conceptual and methodological issues inherent in writing abo…
Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft in der Moderne
Psychiatry and Casualties of War in Germany, 1914–18
This article traces the responses of German psychiatrists to epidemic numbers of shell-shocked men during the first world war, surveying the diagnostic, administrative and therapeutic dimensions of the ‘war neurosis’ problem. First it asks why hysteria, a diagnostic label once reserved for women, was used to diagnose many thousand of psychiatric casualties, and shows how male hysteria diagnosis emerged in the late nineteenth century amid Germany'…
The Final Solution
Treating Mind and Body
As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire, fantasy, and irrationality as it is about interest, reality, and reason, the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance. Its growth and interconnection with other fields appealed to the eclectic and holistic interests of historians so much so that the term psychohistory was coined, admiringly, ambivalently, or perjoratively. methodological intersection o…
Hysterical cures
Hysterical cures: hypnosis, gender and performance in World War I and Weimar Germany Get access P Lerner P Lerner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 45, Issue 1, SPRING 1998, Pages 79–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1998.45.79 Published: 01 January 1998
Psychiatry and Casualties of War in Germany, 1914–18
This article traces the responses of German psychiatrists to epidemic numbers of shell-shocked men during the first world war, surveying the diagnostic, administrative and therapeutic dimensions of the ‘war neurosis’ problem. First it asks why hysteria, a diagnostic label once reserved for women, was used to diagnose many thousand of psychiatric casualties, and shows how male hysteria diagnosis emerged in the late nineteenth century amid Germany'…
Hysterical Men
Hysterical cures
Hysterical cures: hypnosis, gender and performance in World War I and Weimar Germany Get access P Lerner P Lerner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 45, Issue 1, SPRING 1998, Pages 79–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1998.45.79 Published: 01 January 1998
Behind the Screens
Pictured, clockwise: Hanns Eisler, Heinrich and Nelly Mann at the beach, Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger in Nogales, Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger at the Villa Aurora, Thomas Mann and Katia Mann, and Lud
Circulation and representation
This essay looks at the problem of Jews and cosmopolitanism from the perspective of consumer culture in modern Germany. It focuses on German department stores, the great majority of which were owned by Jews, and which were stationary sites for the convergence of goods, styles, people and capital from all over the world. The essay then traces discourses on and representations of circulation across a variety of media and genres, including departmen…
Babylon Berlin
Babylon Berlin (henceforth BB ) premiered in Germany on the pay channel Sky TV in October 2017 and in the United States on the streaming service Netflix in January 2018. It is based on Volker Kutscher's series of crime novels set in late Weimar Republic and early Nazi-era Berlin. At its center are the lives and investigations of the laconic and tormented police detective Gereon Rath and his charismatic and irrepressible assistant Charlotte (Lotte…
An All-Consuming History? Recent Works on Consumer Culture in Modern Germany
In a 2001 essay, the introduction to a special journal issue on consumption in twentieth-century Germany, historians Alon Confino and Rudy Koshar noted the relative lack of scholarship on consumption and consumerism in European, especially German, historiography, as compared to the explosion of interest in the topic among historians of the United States. For Confino and Koshar, this disjuncture appears all the more remarkable in view of the centr…
Hysterical cures
Hysterical cures: hypnosis, gender and performance in World War I and Weimar Germany Get access P Lerner P Lerner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 45, Issue 1, SPRING 1998, Pages 79–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1998.45.79 Published: 01 January 1998
The Final Solution
Treating Mind and Body
As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire, fantasy, and irrationality as it is about interest, reality, and reason, the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance. Its growth and interconnection with other fields appealed to the eclectic and holistic interests of historians so much so that the term psychohistory was coined, admiringly, ambivalently, or perjoratively. methodological intersection o…
Psychiatry and Casualties of War in Germany, 1914–18
This article traces the responses of German psychiatrists to epidemic numbers of shell-shocked men during the first world war, surveying the diagnostic, administrative and therapeutic dimensions of the ‘war neurosis’ problem. First it asks why hysteria, a diagnostic label once reserved for women, was used to diagnose many thousand of psychiatric casualties, and shows how male hysteria diagnosis emerged in the late nineteenth century amid Germany'…
Traumatic Pasts
Traumatic Pasts, originally published in 2001, offers a variety of perspectives on mental trauma in war, medicine, culture and society in modern European and American history. Its primary goals are: to provide a generous sampling of the best of the historical scholarship about trauma; to indicate the empirical, analytical and methodological scope of this work; and to present some of the conceptual and methodological issues inherent in writing abo…
Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft in der Moderne
Hysterical Men
"Paul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how these concepts were swept up into debates about Germany's national health, economic productivity, and military strength in the years surrounding World War I. From a growing concern with industrial accidents in the 1880s through the shell shock "epidemic" of the war, male hysteria seemed to bespeak the failings of German masculi…
Hysterical Men
Traumatic Pasts
Round Table Introduction
The articles that follow were originally presented as a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, in December 2006. I served as chair and commentator on that panel, and the
An All-Consuming History? Recent Works on Consumer Culture in Modern Germany
In a 2001 essay, the introduction to a special journal issue on consumption in twentieth-century Germany, historians Alon Confino and Rudy Koshar noted the relative lack of scholarship on consumption and consumerism in European, especially German, historiography, as compared to the explosion of interest in the topic among historians of the United States. For Confino and Koshar, this disjuncture appears all the more remarkable in view of the centr…
Circulation and representation
This essay looks at the problem of Jews and cosmopolitanism from the perspective of consumer culture in modern Germany. It focuses on German department stores, the great majority of which were owned by Jews, and which were stationary sites for the convergence of goods, styles, people and capital from all over the world. The essay then traces discourses on and representations of circulation across a variety of media and genres, including departmen…
The Rag Race
The Mind of the Nation
The Mind of the Nation: Volkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955, by Egbert Klautke. New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2073. vii, 788. $72.00 US (cloth). This concise and lucid book makes the case that scholars have consistently mischaracterized and unappreciated Volkerpsychologie, a now obscure but once robust set of approaches to understanding national or collective psychology. The idea that there is a German character, an Austrian Mind, or a…
Behind the Screens
Pictured, clockwise: Hanns Eisler, Heinrich and Nelly Mann at the beach, Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger in Nogales, Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger at the Villa Aurora, Thomas Mann and Katia Mann, and Lud
Final Sale in Berlin
Babylon Berlin
Babylon Berlin (henceforth BB ) premiered in Germany on the pay channel Sky TV in October 2017 and in the United States on the streaming service Netflix in January 2018. It is based on Volker Kutscher's series of crime novels set in late Weimar Republic and early Nazi-era Berlin. At its center are the lives and investigations of the laconic and tormented police detective Gereon Rath and his charismatic and irrepressible assistant Charlotte (Lotte…
Stefanie Coché, Psychiatric Institutions and Society
Journal Article Stefanie Coché, Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the Third Reich, the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963 Get access Stefanie Coché, Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the Third Reich, the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963, translated by Alex Skinner, Lond…
Robin Judd. Between Two Worlds
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