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From Berggasse XIX to central park west: The Americanization of psychoanalysis, 1919–1940
Author(s) -
Hale Nathan G.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(197810)14:4<299::aid-jhbs2300140402>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - americanization , humanism , openness to experience , id, ego and super ego , aggression , psychoanalysis , psychoanalytic theory , nazism , sociology , personality psychology , personality , psychology , anthropology , social psychology , political science , law , politics
Freud's influence in America can be explained in part by the greater openness of American medicine during a crucial period of its development from 1910 to 1940. American medicine transformed psychoanalysis from a humanistic, social service European movement into a prosperous speciality with an appropriate theory that altered Freud's conceptions of aggression and the ego. The subsequent identification of psychoanalysis with the psychiatric establishment and the proliferation of rival therapies has made it vulnerable to changes in professional interests and cultural styles.