191217, Dietrich’s father accepted an appointment to the chair of psychiatry and neurology in Berlin. This put him at the head of his field in Germany, a position he retained until his death in 1948. It’s hard to overstate Karl Bonhoeffer’s influence. Bethge said that his mere presence in Berlin “turned the city into a bastion against the invasion of Freud’s and Jung’s psycho-analysis. Not that he had a closed mind to unorthodox theories, or denied on principle the validity of efforts to investigate unexplored areas of the mind.” Karl Bonhoeffer never publicly dismissed Freud, Jung, or Adler
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