Erwin Straus
Erwin Walter Maximilian Straus 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 Phenomenological Psychology Psychiatry and Philosophy Phenomenology of Memory Language and Language Disturbances Man, Time, and World: Two Contributions to Anthropological Psychology
- ''On Obsession: A Clinical and Methodological Study''