{{short description|German psychiatrist}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Eugen Kahn|date=May 2016}} '''Eugen Kahn''' (born 20 May 1887 in Stuttgart, Germany<ref name="University of Texas - University of Texas Libraries - Papers of Eugen Kahn, MD">{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/hamtmc/00074/tmc-00074.html|title=Papers of Eugen Kahn, MD|work=University of Texas Libraries|publisher=University of Texas|accessdate=7 May 2016}}</ref> – died January 1973 in Houston, Texas<ref name="The University Department of Psychiatry in Munich: From Kraepelin and his predecessors to molecular psychiatry">{{cite book|title=The University Department of Psychiatry in Munich: From Kraepelin and his predecessors to molecular psychiatry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0hFEthKmiwC&dq=Texas+%22Eugen+Kahn%22&pg=PA93|accessdate=7 May 2016|date=31 December 2007|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=9783540740179|page=93}}</ref>) was a German psychiatrist. His "habilitation" supervisors were Emil Kraepelin and Ernst Rüdin.<ref name="Springer Science+Business Media - The University Department of Psychiatry in Munich: From Kraepelin and his predecessors to molecular psychiatry -pages 93-94">{{cite book|last1=Hanns Hippius|author-link=:de:Hanns Hippius|last2=Hans-Jürgen Möller|author2-link=Hans-Jürgen Möller|last3=Hans-Jürgen Müller|author3-link=Hans-Jürgen Müller (scientist)|last4=Gabriele Neundörfer-Kohl|author4-link=Gabriele Neundörfer-Kohl| title=The University Department of Psychiatry in Munich: From Kraepelin and his predecessors to molecular psychiatry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0hFEthKmiwC&dq=%22Eugen+Kahn%22+Yale&pg=PA93|year=2007|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media|pages=93–94|isbn=9783540740179}}</ref>
He argued Willenlos was a misnomer for the Haltlose, as the patients demonstrated plenty of "will" and simply lacked the ability to translate it into action.<ref name="EugenKahn">Kahn, Eugen. "Die Psychopathischen Personlichkeiten", 1928</ref> He was the first Sterling Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale 1930-1946.
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