Paul F. Lerner

Expert in Therapeutic practices, Ethnography and human development
  • Assistant Professor of History
Office: (213) 740-1653

Expertise

  • German history, especially Nazism,World War I and World War II, andtopics in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • German politics
  • European social, cultural and intellectualhistory in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • medicine, race and gender in the ThirdReich
  • the history of medicine in the 19th and 20thcentury Germany
  • the history of psychiatry, psychology andpsychoanalysis
  • modern Jewish history

Languages

  • German
  • French

Additional Information

  • Co-editor of Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age (2001)
  • Author of Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany (2003)