Peter Loewenberg, UCLA emeritus professor of history in the College of Letters and Science, was recently unanimously elected an honorary member of the Deutschen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung, DPV (German Psychoanalytic Association). The honor comes in recognition of his scientific and clinical contributions to national and international psychoanalysis.
Integrating the identities of a historian and political psychologist with the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, Loewenberg, who was born in Germany, is dean and director of the Training School, Emeritus, of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
The DPV engages with the public on issues of culture and social theory, philosophy, art, literature, and history of film. They represent the cultural-critical approach to psychoanalysis and promote an understanding of the unconscious drivers of social phenomena and changes. DPV members also make a significant contribution to the psychotherapeutic care of the population outside of psychoanalytic practices.
