John Forrester and Laura Cameron, Freud in Cambridge

Surgeon-Major John Cameron

The Cambridge companion to Freud

found out that, as a Jew, his aims were thwarted. Thus, he started working as a practical neurologist in Frankfurt and built up a private anatomical laboratory in order to continue his systematic and comparative studies of the brain. Only in 1914-four years before his death-was his Neurological Institute incorporated into the new University and Edinger made a professor. Dr. Emisch's book is div...

In memory of Professor John R. Cameron (1922-2005)

John Watson's paradoxical struggle to explain Freud.

John Watson was fascinated by the discoveries of psychoanalysis, but he rejected Freud's central concept of the unconscious as incompatible with behaviorism. After failing to explain psychoanalysis in terms of William James's concept of habit, Watson borrowed concepts from classical conditioning to explain Freud's discoveries. Watson's famous experiment with Little Albert is interpreted not onl...

in memory of professor john r. cameron (1922-2005)

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