Perlzweig: Pioneer of British Zionism

‘The Solution to his Own Enigma’: Connecting the Life of Montague David Eder (1865–1936), Socialist, Psychoanalyst, Zionist and Modern Saint1

This article examines the career of pioneer British psychoanalyst David Eder (1865-1936). Credited by Freud as the first practising psychoanalyst in England, active in early British socialism and then a significant figure in Zionism in post-war Palestine, and in between an adventurer in South America, a pioneer in the field of school medicine, and a writer on shell-shock, Eder is a strangely ne...

Pathologizing dissent: identity politics, Zionism and the 'self-hating Jew'.

This article discusses problems with Kurt Lewin's notion of self-hatred among Jews (Lewin, 1941/1948), and illustrates the ways in which the concept is used in identity politics. It argues that the way the notion of self-hatred is often used makes it problematic as a psychological concept because it requires that we accept particular definitions of group identities and particular political posi...

Parnham—A Pioneer Venture

A parasite pioneer

The concept that infectious biological agents were responsible for many diseases was controversial in the midnineteenth century. But key experiments by famed scientists such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch eventually won over sceptics. However, some other researchers, equally convinced by this notion, and who also carried our convincing experiments in its support at the same time, have failed ...

Arthur Schüller: pioneer of neuroradiology.

The centennial celebration of the discovery of X rays was last year, and the first radiograms of the skull were made one hundred years ago (1). Thus, it is appropriate to remember Arthur Schüller, who was “without any shadow of doubt the father of neuroradiology” (2). His biography can be considered an example of the fate of many scientists in our century. Arthur Schüller was born in Brünn (now...