Alfred Lorenzer (Ulm, April 8, 1922 – Perugia, June 26, 2002) was a German psychoanalyst and sociologist regarded as a pioneer of interdisciplinary psychoanalysis. He integrated the psychological, the biological and the sociological dimension in the science of man, especially with regard to psychoanalytic theory.
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