Arnold Hutschnecker

Arnold Aaron Hutschnecker (13 May 1898 - 28 December 2000) was an Austrian-American medical doctor with a specialisation in psychiatry.

Early life and education

Hutschnecker was born and grew up in Austria. He served in the Austrian army during Word War I. He then studied medicine at Humboldt University, Berlin, specialized in psychiatry.

Career

Hutschnecker and opened a medical practice in Berlin. He became a vocal critic of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government. He emigrated to the United States in 1938 and settled in New York, where he obtained a licence to practice internal medicine[1] and psychiatry.[2]

Among his patients were Richard Nixon.[3][4] He also advised Nixon on child care policy, presenting a plan promoting daycare for preschool children in lower economic neighborhoods.[5]

He also developed a reputation and wrote articles on the psychology of leadership, and advised Gerald Ford.[6] He published a number of books, of which "The Will to Live" became a bestseller.

Hutschnecker was in the news when he wrote that politicians should be required to take a psychiatric examination before running for office.[7] He also suggested that all children be given a test to determine the likelihood of criminal behavior.[8][9]

Hutschnecker died 28 December 2000 in Sherman, Connecticut.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Richard Reeves (10 October 2002). President Nixon: Alone in the White House. Simon and Schuster. pp. 92–. ISBN 978-0-7432-2719-3.
  2. ↑ David L. Robb: The Gumshoe and the Shrink. Guenther Reinhardt, Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, and the secret history of the 1969 Kennedy/Nixon election, Santa Monica Press 2012, 182
  3. ↑ Arnold A. Hutschnecker, M.D. (7 April 2014). The Drive for Power. M. Evans. pp. 313–. ISBN 978-1-59077-323-9.
  4. ↑ Mark Feldstein (28 September 2010). Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-1-4299-7897-2.
  5. ↑ Mary Frances Berry (1 March 1994). The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother. Penguin Publishing Group. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-1-101-65145-2.
  6. ↑ James Cannon (2013). Gerald R. Ford: An Honorable Life. University of Michigan Press. pp. 150–. ISBN 0-472-02946-0.
  7. ↑ Andreas Killen (10 December 2008). 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 237–. ISBN 978-1-59691-999-0.
  8. ↑ Norman K. Denzin. Children and their Caretake. Transaction Publishers. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-1-4128-1951-0.
  9. ↑ John Liebert; William J. Birnes (22 February 2011). Suicidal Mass Murderers: A Criminological Study of Why They Kill. CRC Press. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-1-4200-7679-0.
  10. ↑ Prepress Staff (1 February 2014). Feelings Buried Alive Never Die. Olympus Publishing. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-0-911207-02-6.

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