Erwin Straus

Erwin Straus (11 November 1891, Frankfurt am Main – 20 May 1975, Lexington, Kentucky) was a German-American phenomenologist and neurologist who helped to pioneer anthropological medicine and psychiatry, a holistic approach to medicine that is critical of mechanistic and reductionistic approaches to understanding and treating human beings. Some of his work can also be regarded as a precursor to or early version of neurophenomenology. Straus taught at Black Mountain College. His books published in English include: Man, Time, and World: Two Contributions to Anthropological Psychology (1982, Humanities Press) Language and Language Disturbances (1974, Duquesne University Press) Psychiatry and Philosophy (1969, Springer) Phenomenology: Pure and Applied (1964, Duquesne University Press) On Obsession: A Clinical and Methodological Study (1987, Johnson Reprint Corp) Phenomenological Psychology (1966, Basic Books) Phenomenology of Memory (1970, Duquesne University Press)