ABSTRACT
The founding of Matthias Heinrich Goring Institute in 1936 marked the eclipse of one of the noisiest outside agitators for a "new German psychotherapy," a young physician who literally emerged out of nowhere in 1933, Kurt Gauger. The parvenu Gauger and the patriarch C. G. Jung both quickly receded into the lengthening professional shadow of the paterfamilias Goring. To understand Kurt Gauger is to understand the real story of the Nazi "coordination" of psychotherapy in Nazi Germany. Gauger played an early and significant role in the affairs of psychotherapy under Hitler and he remained connected with the society and the institute up until the end. While parvenu Kurt Gauger imposed himself on the psychotherapists, patriarch Jung was drafted by them to provide the protection and prestige they hoped his name would bring to their discipline in the Third Reich. Carl Jung's role in the affairs of psychotherapy in Germany diminished significantly once the German psychotherapists established their institute in May 1936.
