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Freud-Bleuler Correspondence
FRANZ ALEXANDER, MD;
SHELDON T. SELESNICK, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(1):1-9.
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Excerpts will be presented from a correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Eugen Bleuler, which is devoted mainly to Bleuler's withdrawal from the newly formed International Psychoanalytical Association. These excerpts are from seven letters from Freud to Bleuler and 50 letters from Bleuler to Freud, which were written between 1910 and 1925, and have never been published before. Permission was obtained by Dr. Alexander for their publication from Prof Manfred Bleuler, the son of Eugen Bleuler, and also from Ernst Freud, the son of Sigmund Freud.*
This correspondence throws light upon the origin not of psychoanalysis as a science, but upon what became known as The Psychoanalytic Movement. It reveals the emotional needs of the pioneers of this young branch of knowledge to organize the psychoanalytic movement as an isolated scientific community outside and in opposition to the rest of the medical fraternity. Psychoanalysis is
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Author Affiliations
LOS ANGELES
Mt. Sinai Hospital (Dr. Selesnick).
Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 14, 1964.
Dr. Alexander died March 8, 1964. This paper was to be his Presidential Address to the Academy of Psychoanalysis. It was delivered to this organization by the president-elect, Dr. Judd Marmor, May 3, 1964, Los Angeles. This paper was also presented to the West Coast Psychoanalytic Societies Sept 26, 1964, San Diego, Calif, by Dr. Selesnick.
These excerpts were translated from the German originals into English by Franz Alexander.
Adapted from a chapter in History of Psychiatry by Franz Alexander and Sheldon T. Selesnick, Harper & Row, to be published.
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