The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. Vol. I: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries 1856-1900. Ernest Jones

Isis ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-221
Author(s):  
Richard L. Schoenwald
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Ernest Jones ◽  
Formative Years

A Hard Look at Stimulating and Predicting Development: The Cases of Bonding and Screening

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 205-212
Author(s):  
Robert B. McCall
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Skinfold Thickness ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Normal Children ◽  
Disadvantaged Children ◽  
Psychosocial Dysfunction ◽  
Adult Personality ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Formative Years

An axiom of medicine is to diagnose and treat a disease in its formative stages before it becomes so advanced that treatment is difficult or impossible. The same theme runs through aspects of neonatology and developmental pediatrics—organ systems and processes are laid down early in development and supportive or deleterious factors operating during these early stages can permanently influence or alter the course of development. Belief in "formative Stages was applied to behavior by Sigmund Freud who emphasized the crucial contribution of early experiences to adult personality. A half century later, the same general principle was used to justify Head Start, an educational program that was supposed to equalize the social classes by providing an intellectual boost to disadvantaged children during their formative years. The principle of "formative years" pervaded theory and practice in developmental psychology for decades, but there were always dissonant findings. For example, five decades of research shows quite clearly that test scores obtained within the first year or two of life do not predict later intelligence for normal children.1 Weight and especially skinfold thickness assessed during infancy do not predict later weight or obesity, and early social disadvantage and stress do not necessarily lead to later psychosocial dysfunction. Indeed, today the emphasis in some quarters of developmental psychology is on change, modifiability, and unpredictability in development rather than on consistency.2

Footnotes in the History of British Psychoanalysis: Observing Ernest Jones Discerning the Works of Sigmund Freud, 1905–1908

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Early History ◽  
Association Tests ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ernest Jones

In his late historical and autobiographical writings Ernest Jones claims that he first heard of Freud in 1903, then learnt German and was practising psychoanalysis by 1906. Observing Jones's intellectual development from his treatment of Tom Ellen in early 1905 through to his ‘emigration’ to Canada in late September 1908, reveals flaws in Jones's chronology because his journey towards ‘Freudianism’ was far more complex than he or his biographers have allowed. Jones's contemporaneous publications suggest that his early psychological researches were informed by Pierre Janet and that he only discovered Freud during the Amsterdam Congress in September 1907. Thereafter Jones's knowledge of Freud was gleaned second-hand mainly through the writings of the ‘Boston’ and ‘Zurich’ Schools and his first attempts at psychoanalysis were through Jung's Word Association Tests which he only started using after he arrived in Canada. Revising Jones's autobiographical claims has implications for our understanding of Jones and for the early history of British psychoanalysis.

Therapy and Ideology: Psychoanalysis and Its Vicissitudes in Pre-state Israel (Including Some Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein)

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eran J. Rolnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
German History ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Formative Years

ArgumentFew chapters in the historiography of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cultural, ideological, institutional, and moral issues as the coming of psychoanalysis to Jewish Palestine – a geopolitical space which bears some of the deepest scars of twentieth-century European, and in particular German, history. From the historical as well as the critical perspective, this article reconstructs the intricate connections between migration, separation and loss, continuity and new beginning which resonate in the formative years of psychoanalysis in pre-state Israel.

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