✦ LIBER ✦
Hannah S. Decker. Freud in Germany: Revolution and reaction in science, 18093–1907. Psychological Issues, vol. 11, no. 1, Monograpy 41. New York: International Universities Press, 1977. pp. x + 360. $10.00 (Reviewed by Horst Gundlach)
- Book ID
- 101360927
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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✦ Synopsis
This book is an outstanding example of scholarship in the field of the historiography of the behavioral sciences. It is characterized by the mastery of voluminous primary sources, cautious scrutiny of the secondary sources, and extensive interviews and correspondence with specialists and first-hand informants in the chosen area. Focus of the study is on that well-known pet item of folk history of psychoanalysis which has it that in German academic quarters the early response to psychoanalysis was hostile and unfairif there was any response at all. Though it was Freud himself who originated this