Psychoanalytic theory: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung lectures
In July and September 1909 Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud and Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung presented a series of lectures on psychoanalytic theory at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Shown in this September 10, 1909, photo are (from left in the front row) Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, and Carl Jung and (from left in the back row) Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, and Sándor Ferenczi.
psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis, method of treating mental disorders, shaped by psychoanalytic theory, which emphasizes unconscious mental processes and is sometimes described as “depth psychology.” The psychoanalytic movement originated in the clinical observations and formulations of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, who coined the term psychoanalysis. During the 1890s, Freud worked with Austrian physician and physiologist Josef Breuer in studies of neurotic patients under hypnosis. Freud and Breuer observed that, when the sources of patients’ ideas and impulses were...
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