William Menninger and American psychoanalysis, 1946–48

Psychoanalysis and American Elementary Education

BEFORE Freud, mental disturbances were generally understood to be organic in origin. Psychoanalysis grew out of discoveries made by Freud that these disturbances were often better treated by psychological means than by medical approaches. Because he developed his therapeutic method and theory simultaneously, the term psychoanalysis has since come to refer to a loosely knit theory of mental proc...

William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition (review)

William James as American Plato ?

Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to Charles Hartshorne in 1936 in which he referred to William James as the American Plato. Especially given Whitehead’s admiration of Plato, this was a high compliment to James. What was the basis for this compliment and analogy? In responding to that question beyond the partial and scattered references provided by Whitehead, this article briefly explores t...

The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.

On the occasion of its 50 anniversary, the members of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry can look back with pride and be aware that this professional society has been true to its original goal and passionate mission. Thanks for this momentous accomplishment goes to its founding fathers and mothers, who were clear in their purpose and whose wisdom is manifest in the Ac...

[Psychoanalysis].

First and foremost, the term designates the method of psychiatric treatment created by Sigmund Freud, who coined the term in two publications of 1896: Weitere Bemerkungen über Abwehr-Neuropsychosen (Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defense) and L ́hérédité et l ́étiologie des névroses (Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses), the latter a treatise written in French, in which he depic...