Meng-Koehler, Heinrich Otto (1887-?)
Meng-Koehler, Heinrich Otto (1887-?)
Physician, psychoanalyst, and author. He was born on July 9, 1887, at Hohnhurst, Baden, Germany, and studied at the University of Heidelberg (M.D., 1912), the University of Leipzig, and the University of Würzburg. He became director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Frankfurt (1928-33), and after the fall of Nazism, he emerged as professor of mental hygiene at the University of Basel, Switzerland (1945-55). Following his retirement he was named professor emeritus.
Meng-Koehler edited and contributed to a number of works on mental health and wrote one book, Psychohygiene (Mental Hygiene, 1960). In the field of parapsychology, he took special interest in connections with psychoanalysis. He attended the International Conference on Parapsychological Studies held in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1953, and the Conference on Unorthodox Healing at St. Paul de Vence, 1954.
Sources:
Meng-Koehler, Heinrich O. "Parapsychologie, Psychohygiene, and Aerztliche Fortbildung" (Parapsychology, Mental Hygiene and Medical Training). Hippokrates (1954).
——. "Wunderheilungen" (Miracles of Healing). Hippok-rates (1954).