"After Vienna: A conversation with Otto Kernberg, MD, and Thomas Kohut, PhD"

Please note, watching this video recording is not sufficient to receive CE/CME credit. 

The opening roundtable examined the experiences two prominent psychoanalysts, Otto Kernberg and Heinz Kohut who were forced to emigrate from Vienna as the Holocaust approached. Dr. Kernberg spoke about his life and career considering his emigration experience, and Tom Kohut, PhD, spoke about how the emigration experience of his father Heinz Kohut influenced his personal and professional life and work. How both men have shaped American psychoanalysis was examined. This discussion was moderated by Nancy McWilliams, PhD.

Watch the other roundtables in this series:

• Roundtable 2: "Refugee Psychoanalysts 1920-1955: Enriching Psychoanalysis in the Americas"
• Roundtable 3: "Genocide: What Psychoanalysis Lost in the Holocaust"
• Roundtable 4: "Beyond Forced Emigration: Contemporary Émigré Experience in Psychoanalysis"

Learn about the collaboration here: From Despair to Hope

This roundtable is part of "From Despair to Hope: The Holocaust, Immigration, and Psychoanalysis in North America," a collaboration between the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and the Sigmund Freud Museum honoring the late Anton O. Kris, MD. 

This program is supported in part by Steven C. Ackerman and grants from the Stockbridge Cultural Council and the Lee Cultural Council, local agencies that are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.