Abstract of her keynote lecture at the 10th Scientific Convention of the
Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications
(GTA)
Graz/Austria, March 1999
Any possible distinction between curing and healing is one that is too infrequently
pondered in our own era of high-tech 'quick fixes' for ailments. This lecture will
raise questions about the place of "healing" as a value and goal in neurology
and in our society in general, by telling the story of Kurt Goldstein, a holistic
neurologist with close ties to the Gestalt psychologists; a man who worked with
brain-damaged soldiers during World War I and came, in the context of that work
and the broader cultural imperatives of his time, to ask a question we can still
"hear" today: can we be rigorous scientists of the human mind and brain
and still do justice to the existential sufferings of human beings in distress?
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