Psychoanalysis in Britain, 18931913 - Histories and Historiography

This book is a study of the early history of psychoanalysis in Britain. It examines the early development of psychoanalytic theories and techniques, provides a revisionist interpretation of their origins, and analyzes some of the first practitioners.

List of contents

Introduction: Gathering the Residues
Abbreviations
Part I: Forging the Early History of British Psychoanalysis: For the Love of Truth
Chapter 1: "A Pity to See History Thus Unnecessarily Distorted"
Chapter 2: Debateable Borderlands
Chapter 3: The 1898 BMA Hypnotism Debates
Part II: Mind Cures
Chapter 4: The London Psycho-Therapeutic Society (1900-15)
Chapter 5: Walford Bodie and the British Institute for the Investigation of Mental Science
Chapter 6: The Medical, the Clerical, the Spiritual
Part III: From the Psychical to the Psychological to the Therapeutical
Chapter 7: The Medical Society for the Study of Suggestive Therapeutics
Chapter 8: The Evils of the Unqualified Medical Practitioner
Part IV: Four Psycho-therapists
Chapter 9: Edwin Ash
Chapter 10: T. W. Mitchell
Chapter 11: Ernest Jones
Chapter 12: Montague David Eder
Part V: Disseminating the Works of Freud
Chapter 13: The British Medical Journal, 1904-8
Chapter 14: The Journal of Mental Science, 1898-1911
Chapter 15: Some Early Practitioners of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 16: T. W. Mitchell, Discovering the Works of Freud
Chapter 17: Bernard Hart, Charles Spearman, and the British Psychological Society
Chapter 18: Disseminating the Works of Freud: T. W. Mitchell and the SPR
Chapter 19: T. W. Mitchell and the Psycho-Medical Society
Chapter 20: Jones Returns to London

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By Philip Kuhn

Summary

This book is a study of the early history of psychoanalysis in Britain. It examines the early development of psychoanalytic theories and techniques, provides a revisionist interpretation of their origins, and analyzes some of the first practitioners.

Product details

• Authors: philip kuhn, Kuhn Philip
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781498505246
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0524-6
• No. of pages: 468
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Psychotherapy, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, General and world history, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis