Arnold Hutschnecker

Arnold Aaron Hutschnecker
Born(1898-05-13)May 13, 1898
DiedDecember 28, 2000(2000-12-28) (aged 102)
Sherman, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationHumboldt University
Medical career
ProfessionDoctor

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 Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. He then studied medicine at Humboldt University, Berlin, specialized in psychiatry.

Career

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

Among his patients was 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

  • The Will to Live, Prentice-Hall 1951.[10]
  • Love and Hate in Human Nature, Crowell, 1955.
  • The Drive for Power, M.Evans and Comp. 1974

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.