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As a forensic psychiatrist, I have written extensively about my own routine application of psychiatric and psychoanalytic principles to my practice. 1-7 However, until very recently, I was unaware that Freud, in addition to supplying the indispensable theoretical underpinning, had made direct contributions to forensic psychiatry. Sigmund Freud requires no introduction. His theories and their th...

A Well-Deserved Sabbath Rest: Three Freud Patriarchs Benjamin Goodnick, PH.D* The Talmud relates that King David constantly occupied himself with study on the Sabbath, for he had been foretold that on that day of the week he would die (Bab. Talmud, Shabbat 30a). Indeed, it was only when he ceased his study one Sabbath that the Angel of Death was able to claim him. In a related sense, we can spe...

Most people are aware that Freud, like other outstanding medical men, passed through a phase of cocaine addiction. His writings on this episode are, however, less well known. This authoritative and complete version of the 'Cocaine papers' (1884-1887), with notes by his daughter Anna, is, therefore, welcome. They include his writings on the subject: for example, his paper 'Ujber Coca' of 1884, a...

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...

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 ...

It is a widespread misconception that Sigmund Freud talks of phylogenic heritage only in his late work Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion [1937], where he deals with collective Jewish identity. Striking remarks can already be found in Das Ich und das Es [1923] (which starts his second topography), but the idea already surfaces during the period of his first topography in Das Unbewu...