The History Of The Psychoanalytic Movement

This incredible work traces the psychoanalytic movement started by Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. The psychoanalytic movement originated in Freud's clinical observations when he gave the term psychoanalysis, a way of treating mental disorders shaped by psychoanalytic theory, which emphasizes unconscious mental processes and is described as "depth psychology" sometimes. A must-read for psychology and history students.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), born in Austria, is widely known as the founder of psychoanalysis. The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement was published in German in 1914 in the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse, 4 and the translation was published in 1917 in the Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (No. 25). New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co. The The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis are 5 lectures, which were first published in American Journal of Psychology, 21, 181-218.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill "Cut it short 1 On doomsday 'twon't be worth a farthing!' Goethe. Two years after the first congress the second private congress of psychoanalysts took place at Nuremberg, March, 1910. During the interval, whilst I was still under the impression of the favorable reception in America, the growing hostility in Germany and the unexpected support through the acquisition of the Zurich School, I had conceived a project which I was able to carry out, at this second congress, with the help of my friend S. Ferenczi. I had in mind to organize the psychoanalytic movement, to transfer its center to Zurich, and place it under a head who would take care of its future. As this found much opposition among the adherents of psychoanalysis, I will explain my motives more fully. Thus I hope to justify myself, even if it turns out that my action was not a very wise one. I judged that the association with Vienna was no recommendation, but rather an obstacle for the new movement. A place like Zurich, in the heart of Europe, where an academic teacher had opened his institution to psychoanalysis, seemed to me much more promising. Moreover, I assumed that my own person was a second obstacle. The estimate put upon my personality was utterly confused by the favor or dislike from different factions. I was either compared to Darwin and Kepler or reviled as a paralytic. I, therefore, desired to push into the background not only the city whence psychoanalysis emanated, but also my own personality. Furthermore, I was no longer young, I saw a long road before me and I felt oppressed by the idea that it had fallen to my lot to become a leader in my advanced age. Yet I felt that there must be a leader. I knew only too well what mistakes lay in wait for him who would...

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), born in Austria, is widely known as the founder of psychoanalysis. The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement was published in German in 1914 in the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse, 4 and the translation was published in 1917 in the Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (No. 25). New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co. The The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis are 5 lectures, which were first published in American Journal of Psychology, 21, 181-218.

Dennis B. Klein explores the Jewish consciousness of Freud and his followers and the impact of their Jewish self-conceptions on the early psychoanalytic movement. Using little-known sources such as the diaries and papers of Freud's protégé Otto Rank and records of the Vienna B'nai B'rith that document Freud's active participation in that Jewish fraternal society, Klein argues that the feeling of Jewish ethical responsibility, aimed at renewing ties with Germans and with all humanity, stimulated the work of Freud, Rank, and other analysts and constituted the driving force of the psychoanalytic movement.