"[2] After attending Freud's Introductory Lectures, Schur became interested in psychoanalysis, "had a personal analysis with Ruth Mack Brunswick from 1924-32 and was accepted into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1932.
"[2] Schur contributed knowledge to both fields – medicine and psychoanalysis – founded two psychosomatic clinics, and explored the connection between psyche and soma in many of his 37 papers as well as in his book, Freud Living and Dying.
[6] "In a period when paternalism was common, Schur modelled, through his treatment of Freud, a modern doctor-patient relationship based on veracity and respect for individual autonomy".
[8] Schur compared ethological and child developmental concepts, as can be seen in his critical discussion of John Bowlby's Grief and Mourning in Infancy (1960).
Although rooted in Freud's thinking, Schur argued "firmly for a structured id and ... felt that the idea of the repetition compulsion as a regulatory principle was superfluous".