Revisiting Psychoanalytic History

The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement

If in what follows I bring any contribution to the history of the psychoanalytic movement nobody must be surprised at the subjective nature of this paper, nor at the role which falls to me therein. For psychoanalysis is my creation; for ten years I was the only one occupied with it, and all the annoyance which this new subject caused among my contemporaries has been hurled upon my head in the f...

Revisiting the social history for child health.

Psychoanalytic Ideas and Systemic Family Therapy: Revisiting the Question 'Why Bother?'

Despite a history of ambivalence, systemic family therapy has shown signs of a re-engagement with psychoanalytic ideas over the past fifteen years. This article revisits the question: why bother with psychoanalytic ideas in family therapy? A brief description of work with a family is used to prompt the theory discussion, which identifies and discusses particular ideas from psychoanalysis that a...

Psychoanalytic Pioneers

Psychoanalysis as a living, growing science is illumined brightly by this examination of the biographies of its foremost exponents. Forty individuals are presented, ranging from early workers such as Abraham, Ferenczi, Jung and Adler to contemporary thinkers such as Alexander, Hartmann, Anna Freud and Erikson. Two additional chapters deal with special developments in the U.SA. and Eng-land. The...

Supporting webpage revisiting with history data and visualization

This research addresses the general topic of “keeping found things found” by investigating difficulties people encounter when revisiting webpages. The overall aim of the research is to design, develop and evaluate a web history tool that addresses these difficulties. An empirical study has been conducted. Participants recorded their web navigation for three months using a Firefox add-on. Each p...