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); Kubrick (History 402); The Holocaust (LA 101, First-Year Experience); Great Issues in Fine Arts: Kubrick (HSP 175H, Honors); Kubrick, Film and the Holocaust (History 402.3), Histories of Nazi Germany (HSP 155 H), Film Images of World War II (HSP 131 H).
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)
Recent Research:
The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
"A Quality of Obession Considerably Further East: The Holocaust in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick," Shofar: Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 28 (2010): 72-85
"Rechts um die Ecke rum: Wichmannstrasse, Berggasse, Keithstrasse, 1933-1945," in Psychoanalyse in totalitaeren und autoritaeren Regimen (Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel, 2010), pp.35-57
"Die Holzauktion: Psychotherapie im Nationalsozialismus," Symposium Address, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, April 30, 2011
Featured In:
Room 237 (Director, Rodney Ascher), premiere Sundance Film Festival, January 23, 2012.
Other Interests:
The Nizkor Project: A Holocaust Remembrance, H German, The Internet Movie Database, Stanley Kubrick on the Web
