The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement

The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement

The 1924 German edition
Author	Sigmund Freud
Original title	Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung
Translator	A.A. Brill (English version)
Language	German
Subject	Psychoanalysis
Published	Journal article (German): 1914 Book (English translation): 1917 Book (German): 1924
Media type	Print

The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement is the 1917 English translation^[1] of a 1914 German article (German: Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung)^[2] by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, which was later published in German as a separate work in 1924.^[3]

Freud's work was intended primarily as a polemic against the competing theories in psychotherapy which opposed his psychoanalysis; for example, those of Alfred Adler's individual psychology and Carl Jung's analytical psychology.

Adler and Jung had previously been followers of Freud but objected to his emphasis on sexual matters. Freud's main criticism of them was their insistence on still calling themselves psychoanalysts.

• Freud, S. (1914), "Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung", Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse, Vol.6, pp.207-260.
• Freud, S. (Brill, A.A. trans.) (1917), Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series No.25: The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, New York, NY: New York Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company.
• Freud, S. (1924), Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung, Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag.

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