Erwin Straus

Erwin Walter Maximilian 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: * ''Phenomenology: Pure and Applied'' (1964, Duquesne University Press) * ''Phenomenological Psychology'' (1966, Basic Books) * ''Psychiatry and Philosophy'' (1969, Springer) * ''Phenomenology of Memory'' (1970, Duquesne University Press) * ''Language and Language Disturbances'' (1974, Duquesne University Press) * ''Man, Time, and World: Two Contributions to Anthropological Psychology'' (1982, Humanities Press) * ''On Obsession: A Clinical and Methodological Study'' (1987, Johnson Reprint Corp) Provided by Wikipedia