# Eugen Kahn

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{{short description|German psychiatrist}}
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'''Eugen Kahn''' (born 20 May 1887 in [Stuttgart](/source/Stuttgart), [Germany](/source/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](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Austin)|publisher=[University of Texas](/source/University_of_Texas)|accessdate=7 May 2016}}</ref> – died January 1973 in [Houston](/source/Houston%2C_Texas), [Texas](/source/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](/source/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media)|isbn=9783540740179|page=93}}</ref>) was a [German](/source/German_people) [psychiatrist](/source/psychiatry). His "[habilitation](/source/habilitation)" supervisors were [Emil Kraepelin](/source/Emil_Kraepelin) and [Ernst Rüdin](/source/Ernst_R%C3%BCdin).<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](/source/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media)|pages=93–94|isbn=9783540740179}}</ref>

He argued Willenlos was a misnomer for the [Haltlose](/source/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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