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PSYCHOLOGIST

Heinz Kohut

1913 - 1981

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Heinz Kohut (May 3, 1913 – October 8, 1981) was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst best known for his development of self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practice of analytic and dynamic treatment approaches. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinz Kohut has received more than 327,669 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Heinz Kohut is the 105th most popular psychologist (up from 106th in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 349th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Heinz Kohut ranks 105 out of 183Before him are Michael Balint, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Otto Gross, Hugo Münsterberg, and Clark L. Hull. After him are Rudolf Arnheim, Édouard Claparède, Marie-Louise von Franz, Carol Gilligan, Émile Coué, and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Heinz Kohut ranks 79Before him are Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Alexander Pokryshkin, Boris Pahor, Loretta Young, Eddie Constantine, and Mary Leakey. After him are Wolfgang Lüth, Shih Kien, Bruno Pontecorvo, Pierre Werner, Israel Gelfand, and Marika Rökk. Among people deceased in 1981, Heinz Kohut ranks 48Before him are Omar Torrijos, Lotte Lenya, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Duško Popov, Stefan Wyszyński, and Karl Richter. After him are Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Mike Hailwood, Christy Brown, Rómulo Betancourt, Gyula Lóránt, and Gloria Grahame.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Heinz Kohut ranks 363 out of 1,237Before him are Richard Neutra (1892), Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1822), Joseph Mohr (1792), Peter Altenberg (1859), Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw (1590), and Christine Nöstlinger (1936). After him are Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (1760), Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874), Fanny Elssler (1810), Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria (1895), Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (1371), and Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (1865).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Heinz Kohut ranks 10Before him are Anna Freud (1895), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), René Spitz (1887), and Otto Gross (1877). After him are Walter Mischel (1930), Fritz Heider (1896), Emma Eckstein (1865), and Karl H. Pribram (1919).