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Alive and Well at 80

George L. Engel, MD

JAMA. 1975;231(6):579-582.

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ON THE occasion of Freud's death in 1939, THE JOURNAL editorialized that "Psychoanalysis has become firmly established in psychology, education, and medicine."¹ Thirty-five years later, THE JOURNAL published a COMMENTARY by Jacob Conn entitled, "The Decline of Psychoanalysis."² Both express the wishes of their respective authors, for neither very accurately reflects the true state of affairs, not in 1939, not in 1974. By 1939 psychoanalysis had had considerable impact on psychology, relatively little on education other than in a popularized form, and virtually none at all on the mainstream of medicine, psychiatry included. It was not part of the educational experience of medical students, few analysts being members of medical school faculties in 1939. Nor did psychiatrists have any significant exposure to psychoanalysis as part of their formal education. In 1939 there were six psychoanalytic training institutes and the total membership of the American Psychoanalytic Association was less . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the departments of psychiatry and medicine, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. Dr. Engel is a Career Research Awardee of the Public Health Service.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 260 Crittenden Blvd, Rochester, NY 14642 (Dr. Engel).

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