Dr Jens Elberfeld

Jens Elberfeld studied history, education and sociology in Bielefeld and at Johns Hopkins University. Supported by the Hans Böckler Foundation, he completed his doctorate on the history of the rise to predominance of therapeutic discourse at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. He joined us at MLU in Halle after a period as a researcher in the Department of Education at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He is co-editor of the open access journal Body Politics.   Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte    and a member of the geschichte + theorie    working group. Jens’ principal research interests are in the history of psychotherapy, the body and sexuality, German Jewish history, and theories of society and the social sphere. He is currently engaged in a research project on the history of ‘childhood’ sexuality in the modern age.

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