Jelliffe, American psychoanalyst and physician / John C. Burnham & his correspondence with Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung / edited by William McGuire ; foreword by Arcangelo R.T. D'Amore.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-309) and index.

Jelliffe: American psychoanalyst and physician -- Jelliffe's correspondence with Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung

'Jelliffe's correspondence with Jung and Freud illuminates the personal and professional lives of the three men. The letters help to clarify concepts in both the Jungian and Freudian schools. The shifting emphasis of Jelliffe's relationships with the two masters of psychoanalysis—first when the two were colleagues, then for the greater span of time when they were rivals and adversaries—is revealing of Jelliffe's own flexible views. Jelliffe, furthermore, provides insights into the history of medicine and medical institutions and customs through Jelliffe's frank accounts of the developing medical profession in America. Jelliffe describes, for example, what it was like for a young M.D. to set up an economically viable practice in the 1890s. In addition, Burnham explores the problem of measuring the influence of a man like Jelliffe upon the history of ideas and institutions.'