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Abstract:
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Knobloch was a professor of psychiatry who lived and worked in Prague until 1969, later emigrating and finding his new home in Vancouver, Canada. He is a very important person when it comes to mapping post-war psychoanalysis in Czechoslowakia. During the war and while studying psychotherapy, Knobloch became convinced of the effectiveness of intergration in the field of psychotherapy and later called it "integrated psychoterapy." He inspired and influenced a whole generation of psychotherapists not only in the former Czechoslovakia but also internationally. Because of his ability and ambition, he incorporated psychoanalytic thought and psychodynamic thinking (in his own terminology) into a particular psychotherapeutic system used in the early 1950's within the framework of nationalized health care. He had to do all this under immense pressure, since psychoanalysis was unacceptable to a communist regime and communist ideology. We can probably find some similar experience of totality in the history of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG) after 1938 and from 1949 in the GDR onwards.
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