Freud's Free Clinics

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Ann Danto Klappentext Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However! in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a strikingly different picture of Freud and the early psychoanalytic movement. Danto recovers the neglected history of Freud and other analysts' intense social activism and their commitment to treating the poor and working classes.Danto's narrative begins in the years following the end of World War I and the fall of the Habsburg Empire. Joining with the social democratic and artistic movements that were sweeping across Central and Western Europe! analysts such as Freud! Wilhelm Reich! Erik Erikson! Karen Horney! Erich Fromm! and Helene Deutsch envisioned a new role for psychoanalysis. These psychoanalysts saw themselves as brokers of social change and viewed psychoanalysis as a challenge to conventional political and social traditions. Between 1920 and 1938 and in ten different cities! they created outpatient centers that provided free mental health care. They believed that psychoanalysis would share in the transformation of civil society and that these new outpatient centers would help restore people to their inherently good and productive selves.Drawing on oral histories and new archival material! Danto offers vivid portraits of the movement's central figures and their beliefs. She explores the successes! failures! and challenges faced by free institutes such as the Berlin Poliklinik! the Vienna Ambulatorium! and Alfred Adler's child-guidance clinics. She also describes the efforts of Wilhelm Reich's Sex-Pol! a fusion of psychoanalysis and left-wing politics! which provided free counseling and sex education and aimed to end public repression of private sexuality.In addition to situating the efforts of psychoanalysts in the political and cultural contexts of Weimar Germany and Red Vienna! Danto also discusses the important treatments and methods developed during this period! including child analysis! short-term therapy! crisis intervention! task-centered treatment! active therapy! and clinical case presentations. Her work illuminates the importance of the social environment and the idea of community to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Zusammenfassung Many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. This work presents a different picture of Freud and early psychoanalytic movement. It recovers the history of Freud and other analysts' social activism and their commitment to treating the poor and working classes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction--The Conscience of Society1. 1918 - 1922: Society AwakesTreatment will be free - 1918The polyclinic will be opened in the winter and will grow into a Psi institute - 1919The position of the polyclinic itself as the headquarters of the psycho-analytic movement - 1920An Ambulatorium should exist for psychic treatment in the widest sense of the word - 1921A Psychoanalytic Ambulatorium in Vienna - 19222. 1923 - 1932: The Most Gratifying YearsThis help should be available to the great multitude - 1923The honor proceeds from the Social Democratic Party - 1924A warm sympathy for the fate of these unfortunates - 1925Although absent from the opening of the Clinic! I am all with you - 1926Of special value in the promotion of [psychoanalysis is] the establishment of Institutes and Outpatient Treatment Clinics - 1927Freud knew exactly how things were in the world. But before he could go outside! he first had to know what was inside - 1928The very group of patients who need our treatment are without resources - 1929Free or low-cost analyses...[were] at least a small beginning - 1930As a social-democratic town councilor! Dr. Friedjung has furthered our interests as psychoanalysts - 1931Male applicants ...

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Ann Danto
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2005
• EAN: 9780231131803
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13180-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology