Gustav Richard Heyer (29 April 1890 – 19 November 1967) was a

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psychologist, "the first significant person in Germany to be attracted to Jung's psychology".

Life

Heyer was a

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medical doctor. In 1918 he married Lucie Grote, a masseuse, dancer and student of

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. Heyer and his wife pioneered together a combined physical and psychological therapy.Don Johnson, ''Bone, breath & gesture: practices of embodiment'', p.55 They both underwent training with

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in the mid-1920s, and Heyer became a close friend of Jung. He was Jung's deputy for a year when Jung controversially assumed the presidency of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy, and Jung wrote an introduction for Heyer's ''The Organism of the Mind''. In 1936, however, he and Jung argued at the annual meeting of the society.Thomas Kirsch, ''The Jungians: a comparative and historical perspective'', p.124-6 Lucie Grote divorced Heyer in the mid-1930s, partly because he loved another woman. Later, he joined the Nazi party in 1937, and in 1939 went to Berlin to teach and see patients at the Goering Institute. Although apparently not personally anti-Semitic - in September 1938, for example, he wrote a warm letter of recommendation for the Jew Max Zeller, who had been in analysis with him that year before being interned in a camp - Heyer remained a member of the Nazi Party until 1944. In 1944, reviewing the German edition of Jung's writings, Heyer criticised Jung 's "western-democratic audience" and his attack upon

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. After the war Jung denounced Heyer for his Nazi past, and refused ever to meet with him again. Heyer moved to practice and write in rural

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until his death. Heyer's daughter burned all of her father's papers.

Works

* ''Seelenführung: Möglichkeiten, Wege, Grenzen'', Potsdam: Müller & Kiepenheuer, 1929. * ''Der Organismus der Seele : Eine Einführung in die analytische Seelenheilkunde'', München: J. F. Lehmann, 1932. Translated by Eden and

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as ''The organism of the mind; an introduction to analytical psychotherapy'', London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1933. * ''Praktische Seelenheilkunde; eine Einführung in die Psychotherapie für Ärzte und Studierende'', München: J.F. Lehmann, 1935.

References

1890 births 1967 deaths Physicians in the Nazi Party German psychologists Jungian psychologists 20th-century psychologists {{Germany-psychologist-stub