ABSTRACT
In the third decade of the 20th century the psychological ideology grew and spread to the social sciences—sociology, anthropology, gestalt and phenomenological psychology—religion, neurology, and medicine. Psychiatry, psychoanalysis, neuropsychiatry, child guidance, and public hygiene increased their attention to psychological and social issues. Psychiatry began to extend into the social ideology in terms of public health and mental hygiene. This trend influenced social work and nursing as well as psychiatry and medicine. Erich Lindemann’s early influences directed him toward a career in medicine and psychology but with broad studies in medicine, psychology, philosophy, and religion, earning a degree first in gestalt psychology and then in medicine.
