Emil Gutheil


Emil Arthur Gutheil was a Polish-American psychiatrist specializing in human sexuality, music therapy, and psychoanalysis. He was a founder of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy and editor of the American [Journal of Psychotherapy].

Life and career

Gutheil was born in Poland and educated at the University of Vienna. He was neuro-psychiatrist at the University Clinic and served as personal assistant to Wilhelm Stekel. He co-founded the Active-analytic Clinic in Vienna, but emigrated with his wife to the United States in the late 1930s, fearing Nazi persecution. He served at the psychiatric clinic of Mount [Sinai Hospital, New York]. Gutheil edited Stekel's autobiography.
Gutheil died in New York City following a heart attack. The Gutheil Library at Baruch College and the Gutheil Memorial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy are named in his honor.

Selected publications

  • Gutheil EA. An analysis of a case of transvestism. In Stekel, Sexual Aberrations; the Phenomenon of Fetishism in Relation to Sex. Liveright, pp. 345–351.
  • Gutheil EA. The Language of the Dream. M.D. New York - The Macmillan Company.
  • Gutheil EA. The handbook of dream analysis. Liveright. 1970 reprint
  • Stekel W, Gutheil EA, eds.. Patterns of psychosexual infantilism. Liveright,
  • Gutheil EA. Music and your emotions. Liveright. 1970 reprint
  • Gutheil EA. Reactive depressions. Reactive depressions. In S. Arieti, American handbook of psychiatry, Vol. 1. New York: Basic Books, 1959.
  • Stekel W, Gutheil EA, Wertham F, van Teslaar JS. Auto-erotism: a psychiatric study of masturbation and neurosis. Grove Press