Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2093

JAMES JACKSON PUTNAM (1846-1918) Addresses on psycho-analysis. International Psycho-Analytical Press 1921 v, 470 pp., front. (port.). 23.6 cm.

From a distinguished New England family, Putnam graduated from Harvard in 1866 and received his medical training at the same institution. After completing his medical education, he spent two years in Europe studying at Vienna, Leipzig, Paris, and London where he came under the influence of Rokitansky (see No. 1658 ff.), Theodor Meynert (see No. 1987), and John Hughlings Jackson (see No. 2001). Upon his return to Harvard, Putnam decided to specialize in neurology and eventually became Harvard's first professor of diseases of the nervous system. Working closely with Massachusetts General Hospital, he established their neurological clinic and served as its director from 1874 to 1909. In the Preface of this work, Sigmund Freud (see No. 2176 ff.) comments that Putnam "was not only the first American to interest himself in psycho-analysis, but soon became its most decided supporter and its most influential representative in America" (p. iii). The papers in the book were written between 1909 and Putnam's death and show very well the shift in his interest from the problems of organic neurology to those of clinical psychology. The book was edited by Ernest Jones (1879-1958) and contains his obituary of Putnam as well as a bibliography of his psychological writings.

See Related Record(s): 1658 1987 2001 2176

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