Name: Geoffrey Cocks

Degree: A.B., Occidental College, 1970; M.A., 1971, Ph.D., UCLA, 1975. Appointed 1975.

Courses Offered: 1500 Europe 2000 (History 103); 1789 Europe 1918 (History 217); 1918 Europe 1989 (History 218); Film Images of World War II (History/Political Science 229, team-taught); Modern Russia (History 313); Modern Germany (History 390); The Irrational in History (History 395); The Holocaust (LA 101, First-Year Experience); Great Issues in Fine Arts: Kubrick (HSP 175H, Honors); Kubrick, Film and the Holocaust (History 402.3)
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Publications: He is the author of many books and articles, including Psychotherapy in the Third Reich (Oxford UP 1985, Transaction Publishers 1997), German Professions, 1800-1950 (1990), The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut (1994), Medicine and Modernity (1996), Treating Mind and Body (Transaction Publishers 1998), and Psycho/History: Readings in the Method of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and History (Yale University Press, 1987) , The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust (Color Illustrations), and Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History (Wisconsin Press 2006)

Research Interests: He is presently working on a  project involving a social history of illness in Nazi Germany.

Other Interests: The Nizkor Project: A Holocaust Remembrance, H German, The Internet Movie Database, Stanley Kubrick on the Web

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