Goldenberg Institute

The Goldenberg Institute for Applied Psychology (German: Goldenberg Institut für angewandte Psychologie) was founded in 1999 to preserve the scientific heritage of Paul Charles Dubois (Switzerland) and Benjamin S. Goldenberg (United Kingdom). The institute is located in Darmstadt (Germany) and has scientific ties to the U.S., Russia and the United Kingdom. It also provides training and conducts research in the field of applied psychology and psychotherapy in form of a nonprofit academy.
History & Directorate
The founder of the Goldenberg Institute and its academy was science journalist Helge Huffstodt Elleser and social scientist Roswitha Müller-Schenkenbrink. Since 2009 the director of the Goldenberg Institute is veteran of scientific pedagogy and publisher Christiane Kostarellos. Honorary members of the "Board of Trustees" include dignitaries like Professor Hossein Baghernejad of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Professor Michael A. Jenike of Harvard University, Dr. Dmitri Strelkov of Herzen University, Dr. Paul H. Smith, marketing psychology veteran Hildegard Mannheim and psychological innovator Dr. Klaus Lassert.
Background
Paul Charles Dubois (1848-1918) was a Swiss neuropathologist who was a native of La Chaux-de-Fonds and one of the forefathers of behavioural psychotherapy. During his lifetime he never gained as much public attention as other founders of modern psychology, partly because his theories were regarded to be against the "zeitgeist" of that time. Since his death, Dubois has been regarded to be a forgotten progenitor of modern clinical psychology. Dubois greatest achievement was a therapy method called "persuasion therapy", a process that combined elements of persuasive communication and behavioural methods. His best known written work was the 1904 Les psychonévroses et leur traitement moral, being later translated into English as "Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders (The Psychoneuroses and Their Moral Treatment)". By contrast, Benjamin S. Goldenberg is often referred to as one of the last universal geniuses of the early 20th century. His psychological-philosophical concepts, mainly passed on by word of mouth or notepads, embraced not only the concept of the human psyche (mind) but rather that of a broader soul in a metaphysic sense, including concept of a collective subconscious. The Goldenberg Institute of Applied Pychology has taken on the task of saving and passing on this knowledge for future generations.

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