On Authoritarian Therapy

Law and Crime

What Is Genocidal Consciousness?

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on March 7, 2022

A Personal Perspective: Is genocide occurring in Ukraine?

A Personal Perspective: Is genocide occurring in Ukraine?

Fear

History and January 6th One Year Later

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on January 12, 2022

A Personal Perspective: An examination of January 6th one year later prompts the question: Are we losing our democracy?

A Personal Perspective: An examination of January 6th one year later prompts the question: Are we losing our democracy?

Politics

How Will Historians Interpret the Storming of the Capitol?

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on January 24, 2021

How will historians make sense of the storming of the Capitol?

How will historians make sense of the storming of the Capitol?

President Donald Trump

Why Did 74 Million People Vote for Trump?

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on December 14, 2020

A Reflection on Fred Siegel

A Reflection on Fred Siegel

Unconscious

What Is the Appeal of Trumpism?

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on September 12, 2020

Are we living through the advent of American fascism? Why is this happening?

Are we living through the advent of American fascism? Why is this happening?

Psychology

Why Viktor Frankl Still Matters

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on April 4, 2020

...75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.

...75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.

Politics

Genocide "In" Modernity

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on December 2, 2019

Is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) capable of preventing genocide?

Is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) capable of preventing genocide?

Embarrassment

Making Sense of the Auschwitz Report Part 11

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on July 23, 2019

What is the Context of Primo Levi's famous testimony Survival in Auschwotz?

What is the Context of Primo Levi's famous testimony Survival in Auschwotz?

Friends

Making Sense of Primo Levi's Auschwitz Report

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on July 22, 2019

What is the relationship between Primo Levi's Holocaust Testimony Survival in Auschwitz and the Auschwitz Report?

What is the relationship between Primo Levi's Holocaust Testimony Survival in Auschwitz and the Auschwitz Report?

An exchange on PTSD between a theologian and a humanist.

How to make sense of Bettelheim's and Frankl's divergent views on psychotherapy in light of their Holocaust survival.

Identity

Austrian Jews Respond to Nazism, Part 3 of 3

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on August 3, 2018

Hans Maier becomes Jean Améry

Hans Maier becomes Jean Améry

Religion

Austrian Jews Respond to Nazism, Part 2

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on July 3, 2018

How did Frankl's Jewish identity change over time?

How did Frankl's Jewish identity change over time?

Identity

Austrian Jews Respond to Nazism, Part 1

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on June 28, 2018

How did the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust impact Jewish identity? Was heroic survival of the Holocaust possible? A post in three parts.

How did the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust impact Jewish identity? Was heroic survival of the Holocaust possible? A post in three parts.

How I came to develop a phenomenology of Holocaust survival.

Revisiting the decision not to interview Viktor Frankl.

Does Viktor Frankl's saintly persona stand up under scrutiny?

Freudian Psychology

Is There a Fascist Impulse in All of Us?

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on February 23, 2017

I am slowly succumbing to the disturbing conclusion there is.

I am slowly succumbing to the disturbing conclusion there is.

Religion

The Case Against Viktor Frankl

Timothy Pytell Ph.D. on April 14, 2016

Controversy has trailed the psychologist ever since his best-selling book popularized logotherapy worldwide.

Controversy has trailed the psychologist ever since his best-selling book popularized logotherapy worldwide.