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Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938

Elizabeth Ann Danto

Paper, 352 pages, 40 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13181-0
$23.50 / £14.00

May, 2005
Cloth, 352 pages, 40 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13180-3
$72.50 / £42.50

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Introduction--The Conscience of Society

1. 1918 - 1922: Society Awakes

Treatment will be free - 1918

The polyclinic will be opened in the winter and will grow into a Psi institute - 1919

The position of the polyclinic itself as the headquarters of the psycho-analytic movement - 1920

An Ambulatorium should exist for psychic treatment in the widest sense of the word - 1921

A Psychoanalytic Ambulatorium in Vienna - 1922

2. 1923 - 1932: The Most Gratifying Years

This help should be available to the great multitude - 1923

The honor proceeds from the Social Democratic Party - 1924

A warm sympathy for the fate of these unfortunates - 1925

Although absent from the opening of the Clinic, I am all with you - 1926

Of special value in the promotion of [psychoanalysis is] the establishment of Institutes and Outpatient Treatment Clinics - 1927

Freud knew exactly how things were in the world. But before he could go outside, he first had to know what was inside - 1928

The very group of patients who need our treatment are without resources - 1929

Free or low-cost analyses...[were] at least a small beginning - 1930

As a social-democratic town councilor, Dr. Friedjung has furthered our interests as psychoanalysts - 1931

Male applicants for treatment [were] regularly more numerous than female - 1932

3. 1933 - 1938: Termination

The Berlin Psychoanalytic... Policlinic... came to an end - 1933

Psychoanalysis [as] the germ of the dialectical-materialist psychology of the future - 1934

A written Children's Seminar of Marxist psychoanalysis - 1935

Social psychoanalysis - 1936

These were traumatic times and we talked little about them later - 1937

The fate of psychoanalysis depends on the fate of the world - 1938

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About the Author

Elizabeth Ann Danto is associate professor and chair of the Foundations of Practice at Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York.

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