that data from the Lamarckian phrenologist H. C. Watson, rationalizing this on the grounds that Watson had uncovered transcendentally true facts that were now free for the taking (p. 180). This, indeed, is rich material on the plight of the "outsider" in a professionalizing culture. Adrian Desmond JEFFREY M. MASSON, The assault on truth. Freud's suppression of the seduction theory, New York, Fa...

The title of this book is misnamed. More correctly it is an introduction to German psychiatry. Written by the Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Munich, it attempts to present an accurate survey of the history of psychiatry from the 18th century to the present time for an audience which differs widely in interest and sophistication. Whenever an author attempts to write for a group of ...

Another example of the inadequate, indeed mistaken, discussion of a partly medical question ofpractical importance is that ofwitchcraft. The beliefthat most witches were women who suffered from melancholic delusions is central to Johann Wier's extremely influential De praestigiis daemonum, and Jean Bodin's refutation of it hinges on the denial that women are prone to melancholy. All this is omi...

teacher, the founder and leader of the psycho-analytical movement. The second volume of the biography is concerned with the years of maturity at the age of 45 onwards, from 1901 to 1919, when Freud's great exploration of the unconscious mind and the discovery of infantile sexuality were made. The present volume deals fully not only with the background and evolution of Freudian concepts but with...

Psychoanalysts since Sigmund Freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. Freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while Slavoj Žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. In this essay, I dig into these theories to uncover traces of Lutheran interpretations of Paul’s words on the Jewish l...

When we see Dr. Sidis heralded by his publisher as the discoverer of "the fundamental cause of psychopathic maladies," we infer that Dr. Sigmund Freud has a rival. Freud in his day was hailed as a discoverer, and he too put forward one cause, albeit a different one, to which he would reduce all cases of functional mental disorder. Dr. Sidis is unkind enough to allude to psycho-analysis as "Freu...

Client or patient resistance in psychotherapy has been the concern of therapists since the time of Freud. Freud identified several kinds of resistance. These included the patient's resistance to uncovering repressed material; resistance to the insights provided by the therapist's interpretations; resistance to the therapist as the provider of these insights--the negative transference; resistanc...