RT Journal
T1 NEw ways in psychoanalysis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD July 22
VO 113
IS 4
SP 356
OP 357
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800290082027
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800290082027
AB Nearly fifty years ago Sigmund Freud published the first of a series of clinical observations and formulations relative to the treatment of neurotic patients. In subsequent publications he broadened and frequently revised his views in the light of further observations. The novelty of the material and the wide departure from the accepted conceptions aroused great resistance on the part of the medical profession, but the intelligence, honesty and self criticism of the discoverer of psychoanalysis plus the therapeutic success of the method gradually won for it the respect of large numbers of medical men. Since then the growth and development of psychoanalysis have continued in a decent and orderly fashion, like those of other scientific disciplines, contributed to by hundreds of serious, scientific workers who have added their observations and made their suggestions to their colleagues for the modification of this or that detail in the theory or in the