Erwin Straus

Who was Erwin Straus?

Erwin Straus 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

Language and Language Disturbances

Psychiatry and Philosophy

Phenomenology: Pure and Applied

On Obsession: A Clinical and Methodological Study

Phenomenological Psychology

Phenomenology of Memory