Alfred Hoche
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German psychiatrist
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Alfred Hoche's Degrees
- Doctorate Psychiatry University of Strasbourg
Why Is Alfred Hoche Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alfred Erich Hoche was a German psychiatrist known for his writings about eugenics and euthanasia. Life Hoche studied in Berlin and Heidelberg and became a psychiatrist in 1890. He moved to Strasbourg in 1891. From 1902 he was a professor in Freiburg im Breisgau and was the director of the psychiatric clinic there. He was a major opponent of the psychoanalysis theories of Sigmund Freud. Hoche's body of work on the classification system of mental illness had great influence. He also published poetry under the pseudonym Alfred Erich.
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