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The Resource Freud's free clinics : psychoanalysis & social justice, 1918-1938, Elizabeth Ann Danto

Freud's free clinics : psychoanalysis & social justice, 1918-1938, Elizabeth Ann Danto

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Annotation 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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 348 pages)
Contents
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • "The Conscience of Society"-- INTRODUCTION
  • 1. 1918-1922: Society Awakes
  • 2. 1923-1932: The Most Gratifying Years
  • 3. 1933-1938: Termination
  • NOTES
Isbn
9780231506564
Instance
Label
Freud's free clinics : psychoanalysis & social justice, 1918-1938
Title
Freud's free clinics
Title remainder
psychoanalysis & social justice, 1918-1938
Statement of responsibility
Elizabeth Ann Danto
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Annotation 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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Danto, Elizabeth Ann
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Psychoanalysis
  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Europe
  • Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Mental Health Services
  • Psychoanalysis
  • History, 20th Century
  • Mental Health Services
  • Social Change
  • Social Justice
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Uncompensated Care
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Freud's free clinics : psychoanalysis & social justice, 1918-1938, Elizabeth Ann Danto
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Publication
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unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-341) and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
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rdacontent
Contents
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • "The Conscience of Society"-- INTRODUCTION
  • 1. 1918-1922: Society Awakes
  • 2. 1923-1932: The Most Gratifying Years
  • 3. 1933-1938: Termination
  • NOTES
Control code
ocm62117986
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 348 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780231506564
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unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
Other control number
10.7312/dant13180
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illustrations
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22573/cttgrx1q
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Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)62117986
Label
Freud's free clinics : psychoanalysis & social justice, 1918-1938, Elizabeth Ann Danto
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-341) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • "The Conscience of Society"-- INTRODUCTION
  • 1. 1918-1922: Society Awakes
  • 2. 1923-1932: The Most Gratifying Years
  • 3. 1933-1938: Termination
  • NOTES
Control code
ocm62117986
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 348 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780231506564
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
Other control number
10.7312/dant13180
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/cttgrx1q
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)62117986

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