Freud and the Americans

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• Psychiatrie
• Psychoanalyse

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Although Freud made only one visit to the United States, the spectacular rise and the gradual decline of his theories on human behavior continue to make headlines. In 1956, celebrating the centennial of Freud's birth, popular magazines reported that this "Darwin of the Mind" had fathered modern psychiatry, psychology, child raising, education, and sexual attitudes. But by 1975, Sir Peter Medawar, a medical research scientist and a Nobel Prize winner, announced in the New York Review of Books that "doctrinaire psychoanalytic theory" was the "most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century." In 1984, a headline in Ms. Magazine - "The Hundred Year Cover Up: How Freud Betrayed Women"--Neatly summed up two decades of scathing feminist criticism. How much of this extraordinary sea change in Freud's American reputation is due to the nature of psychoanalysis itself, and how much to shifts in American society?

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995