Psychoanalytic pioneers

Preface. Karl Abraham; the first German psychoanalyst - Martin Grotjahn. Sandor Ferenczi; pioneer of pioneers - Sandor Lorand. Otto Rank - The myth of the birth of the hero - Samuel Eisenstein. Max Eitingon; the organization of psychoanalytic training - Sydney L. Pomer. Carl Gustav Jung; contributions to psychoanalysis - Sheldon T. Selesnick. Alfred Adler; the psychology of the inferiority complex - Sheldon T. Selesnick. Ernest Jones; the biography of Freud - Lilla Veszy-Wagner. Paul Federn; the theory of the psychosis - Edoardo Weiss. Edward Hitschmann; psychoanalysis of great men - Philip L. Becker. Oskar Pfister; psychoanalysis and faith - Hans Zulliger. Hanns Sachs; the creative unconscious - Fritz Moellenhoff. Moshe Woolf; pioneering in Russia and Israel - Ruth Jaffe. Abraham Arden Brill; first American translator of Freud - May E. Romm. Smith Ely Jelliffe; psychosomatic medicine in America - Nolan D.C. Lewis. Victor Tausk; the influencing machine - Martin Grotjahn and Hans A. Illing. Sandor Rado; the adaptational theory - Franz Alexander. Theodor Reik; masochism in modern man - Joseph M. Natterson. Ella Freeman Sharpe; the search for empathy - Charles William Wahl. Geza Roheim; psychoanalysis and anthropology - Weston La Barre. Helene Deutsch; the maturation of woman - Marie H. Briehl. Felix Deutsch; psychoanalysis and internal medicine - Glenn W. Flagg. Georg Groddeck; the untamed analyst - Martin Grotjahn. August Starcke; the sources of castration anxiety - Jacob Spanjaard. Heinrich Meng; psychoanalysis and mental hygiene - Adolf Friedemann. Hans Zulligter; psychoanalysis and education - Adolf Friedemann. August Aichhorn; friend of the wayward youth - George J. Mohr. Melanie Klein; her view of the unconscious - John Arnold Lindon Ernst Simmel; Psychoanalytic pioneering in California - John S. Peck. Franz Alexander; the Western mind in transition - Martin Grotjahn. Marie Bonaparte; the problem of female sexuality - Claude Stein-Monod. Siegfried Bernfeld; Sisyphus or the boundaries of education - Rudolf Ekstein. Wilhelm Reich; character analysis - Walter Briehl. Otto Fenichel; the encyclopedia of psychoanalysis - Ralph R. Greenson. Karen Horney; the cultural emphasis - Joseph M. Natterson. Paul Ferdinand Schilder; psychoanalysis and psychiatry - Isidore Ziferstein. Heinz Hartmann; psychology of the ego - Rudolph M. Loewenstein. Ernst Kris; twentieth-century Uomo Universale - Samuel Ritvo and Lucille B. Ritvo. Edward Glover; theory of technique - Charles William Wahl. Kate Friedlander; prevention of juvenile delinquency - Barbara Lantos. Anna Freud and Erik H. Erikson; contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy - Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin. Psychoanalysis in England - Edward Glover. Psychoanalysis in the United States - John A.P. Millet

'The history of psychoanalysis has recently received profound attention. Most historical work has centered around the life, the personality, and the achievement of Sigmund Freud....Other research has reconstructed the development of centers of psychoanalysis....However, biographies of the great men in psychoanalysis are practically nonexistent: information has been limited to brief obituaries in the professional journals, and analytic autobiographies are rare and fragmentary. Under these circumstances, writing a history of the pioneers in psychoanalysis and a description of pioneering in the psychoanalytic movement was a temptation and a challenge, especially a history that would present a genetic picture pf psychoanalysis during its development....' --Preface

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