Ernst Angel (11 August 1894, Vienna, Austria – 10 January 1986, Newark, New Jersey) was an Austrian-born poet, theatre and film critic, screen play author, film director and publisher who later became a psychologist.
Ernest Angel, Ph.D. was vice-president of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis ( NPAP) for many years.
He told one of his students in supervision that he witnessed a prisoner in the camp being shot in the head directly in front of him.
He confided that he would pretend to be invisible as a defense mechanism to the horrible conditions around him.
He said that the younger generations introject these threats and lose their sense of having a destiny and live only for the moment.