1st Edition

Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis

Edited By Toby Gelfand, John Kerr Copyright 1992
410 Pages
by Routledge

410 Pages
by Routledge

488 Pages
by Routledge

The recent upsurge of fresh historical research concerning the early years of psychoanalysis has left many professional readers struggling to keep abreast of the latest findings and more than a little perplexed as to what it all adds up to.  Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis addresses this state of affairs by providing in a single volume original essays by fourteen leading historians... Read more
Preface - Toby Gelfand
Freud's Parental Identifications as a Source of Some Contradictions Within Psychoanalysis - Robert R. Holt
Sigmund-sur-Seine: Fathers and Brothers in Charcot's Paris - Toby Gelfand
The Two Medical Worlds of Sigmund Freud - Edward Shorter
Freud and the Force of History - William J. McGrath
The Sources of Freud's Methods for Gathering and Evaluating Clinical Data - Malcolm Macmillan
Reassessing Freud's Case Histories: The Social Construction of Psychoanalysis - Frank J. Sulloway
Two Major Difficulties for Freud's Theory of Dreams - Adolf Grunbaum
Pre-Freudian Discover of Dream Meaning: The Achievements of Charcot, Janet, and Krafft-Ebing - Rosemarie Sand
Freud and the Mind-Body Problem - Edwin R. Wallace, IV
Freud's "Dora" Case in Perspectives: The Medical Treatment of Hysteria in Austria at the Turn of the Century - Hannah S. Decker
Freud's Patients: First-Person Accounts - Paul Roazen
Freud as Family Therapist: Reflections - Patrick Mahony
A Case History Before Freud: Intimations of the Unconscious in Wadsworth - Steven Marcus
The Idyll in the Harz Mountains: Freud's Secret Committee - Phyllis Grosskurth
Epilogue: History and the Clinician - John Kerr

Biography

Toby Gelfand, Ph.D., is Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  He is the author of Professionalizing Modern Medicine: Paris Surgeons and Medical Science in the Eighteenth Century.  He recent research dealing with Charcot and the School of the Salpetriere will culminate in a forthcoming biography of Charcot, coauthored with Christopher Goetz and Michel Bonduelle.

John Kerr completed his training in clinical psychology at the Doctoral Program of New York University and was Associate Editor at The Analytic Press.  He is the author of A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Spielrein, and Freud, a study of the early history of the psychoanalytic movement.

"The high level of scholarship in the presentations makes the volume a significant contribution to the Freud studies literature. At the same time, the clarity of exposition and the avoidance of insider jargon make the volume an excellent introduction to the genre."

- Barry Silverstein, Ph.D., Contemporary Psychology