Freud's Free Clinics : Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938.
Title:
Freud's Free Clinics : Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938.
Author:
Danto, Elizabeth Ann.
ISBN:
9780231506564
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents:
Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- "The Conscience of Society"-Introduction -- 1. 1918-1922: Society Awakes -- "Treatment will be free"-1918 -- "The polyclinic will be opened in the winter and will grow into a Ψ institute"-1919 -- "The position of the polyclinic itself as the headquarters of the psychoanalytic movement"-1920 -- "An Ambulatorium should exist for psychic treatment in the widest sense of the word"-1921 -- "A Psychoanalytic Ambulatorium in Vienna"-1922 -- 2. 1923-1932: The Most Gratifying Years -- "This help should be available to the great multitude"-1923 -- "The honor proceeds from the Social Democratic Party"-1924 -- "A warm sympathy for the fate of these unfortunates"-1925 -- "Although absent from the opening of the Clinic, I am all with you"-1926 -- "Of special value in the promotion of [psychoanalysis is] the establishment of Institutes and Outpatient Treatment Clinics"-1927 -- Freud "knew exactly how things were in the world. But before he could go outside, he first had to know what was inside"-1928 -- "The very group of patients who need our treatment are without resources"-1929 -- "Free or low-cost analyses … [were] at least a small beginning"-1930 -- "As a social-democratic town councilor, Dr. Friedjung has furthered our interests as psychoanalysts"-1931 -- "Male applicants for treatment [were] regularly more numerous than female"-1932 -- 3. 1933-1938: Termination -- "The Berlin Psychoanalytic … Policlinic … came to an end"-1933 -- "Psychoanalysis [as] the germ of the dialectical-materialist psychology of the future"-1934 -- "A written Children's Seminar of Marxist psychoanalysis"-1935 -- "Social psychoanalysis"-1936 -- "These were traumatic times and we talked little about them later"-1937 -- "The fate of psychoanalysis depends on the fate of the world"-938 -- Notes.
Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However, in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a strikingly different picture of Freud and the early psychoanalytic movement. Danto recovers the neglected history of Freud and other analysts' intense social activism and their commitment to treating the poor and working classes. Danto's narrative begins in the years following the end of World War I and the fall of the Habsburg Empire. Joining with the social democratic and artistic movements that were sweeping across Central and Western Europe, analysts such as Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Erik Erikson, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, and Helene Deutsch envisioned a new role for psychoanalysis. These psychoanalysts saw themselves as brokers of social change and viewed psychoanalysis as a challenge to conventional political and social traditions. Between 1920 and 1938 and in ten different cities, they created outpatient centers that provided free mental health care. They believed that psychoanalysis would share in the transformation of civil society and that these new outpatient centers would help restore people to their inherently good and productive selves. Drawing on oral histories and new archival material, Danto offers vivid portraits of the movement's central figures and their beliefs. She explores the successes, failures, and challenges faced by free institutes such as the Berlin Poliklinik, the Vienna Ambulatorium, and Alfred Adler's child-guidance clinics. She also describes the efforts of Wilhelm Reich's Sex-Pol, a fusion of psychoanalysis and left-wing politics, which provided free counseling and sex education and aimed to end public repression of private sexuality. In addition to situating the efforts of psychoanalysts in the political and cultural
contexts of Weimar Germany and Red Vienna, Danto also discusses the important treatments and methods developed during this period, including child analysis, short-term therapy, crisis intervention, task-centered treatment, active therapy, and clinical case presentations. Her work illuminates the importance of the social environment and the idea of community to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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