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Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893-1913 - Histories and Historiography (Hardcover)
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Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893-1913 - Histories and Historiography (Hardcover)
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Historians and biographers of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy,
psychology, medicine and culture, even Wikipedia, believe Ernest
Jones discovered Freud in 1904 and had become the first
English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis by 1906.
Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893-1913 offers radically different
versions to that monolithic Account propagated by Jones over 70
years ago. Detailed readings of the contemporaneous literature
expose the absurdities of Jones's claim, arguing that he could not
have been using psychoanalysis until after he exiled himself to
Canada in September 1908. Removing Jones reveals vibrant British
cultures of "Mind Healing" which serve as backdrops for widespread
interest in Freud. First; the London Psychotherapeutic Society
whose volunteer staff of mesmerists, magnetists, hypnotists and
spiritualists offered free psycho-therapeutic treatments. Then the
wondrous Walford Bodie, who wrought his free "miraculous cures," on
and off the music-hall stage, to adoring and hostile audiences
alike. Then the competing religious and spiritual groups actively
promoting their own faith healings, often in reaction to fears of
Christian Science but often cow-towing to orthodox medical and
clerical orthodoxies. From this strange milieu emerged medically
qualified practitioners, like Edwin Ash, Betts Taplin, and Douglas
Bryan, who embraced hypnotism and psychotherapy. From 1904 British
Medical Journals began discussing Freud's work and by 1908
psychiatrists, working in lunatic asylums, were already testing and
applying his theories in the treatment of patients. The medically
qualified psychotherapists, who formed the Medical Society for the
Study of Suggestive Therapeutics, soon joined with medical members
from the Society for Psychical Research in discussing,
proselytizing, and practising psychoanalysis. Thus when Jones
returned to London, in late summer 1913, there were thriving
psychotherapeutic cultures with talk of Freud and psychoanalysis
occupying medical journals and conferences. Psychoanalysis in
Britain, 1893-1913, with its meticulous research, wide sweep of
vision and detailed understanding of the subtle inter-connections
between the orthodox and the unorthodox, the lay and the medical,
the social and the biographical, as well as the byzantine
complexities of British medical politics, will radically alter your
understanding of how those early twentieth century "Mind Healing"
debates helped shape the ways in which the 'talking cure' first
started infiltrating our lives.
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