Arnold Kutzinski

Arnold Kutzinski (17 August 1879, Berlin – 26 December 1956, Jerusalem) was a controversial German psychiatrist and neurologist, known as both an outspoken critic of psychoanalysis and a supporter of eugenics.^[1][2]

He studied medicine at the University of Berlin, University in Munich^[3] and at Freiburg, where he graduated in 1905.^[4]

Subsequently, he became assistant to Bonhoeffer at the Charité psychiatric clinic in Berlin. After World War I ended, he was appointed professor of psychiatry in Königsberg.^{[citation needed]}

In the early 1930s, he emigrated to Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv.^[1] He died in 1956 in Jerusalem, aged 77.^[5]

Kutzinski was a prolific writer and left a number of works in German and Hebrew on psychiatric and neurological issues. He published i.a. on aphasia,^[6] blindsight,^[7] headache,^[8] war neuroses,^[9] hysteria,^[10] olfactory hallucinations,^[11] eclamptic psychosis.^[12] His criticism of psychoanalysis was fully articulated in the 1931 article.^[13]