Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2301

CARL GUSTAV JUNG (1875-1961) Über die Psychologie der Dementia praecox; ein Versuch. C. Marhold 1907 iv, 179 pp. 23.2 cm.

Jung, born in a small village near Basel, Switzerland, was from a family of scholars. He was educated in his native city and was graduated in medicine from the University. Following postgraduate work in France, he worked under Bleuler (see No. 2196) at the Psychiatric Clinic and Burghölzli Hospital of the University of Zurich. He first met Sigmund Freud (see No. 2176 ff.) in 1907 and worked with him until 1912 when he departed to found his own school of psychoanalytic thought. Later he was professor of psychology at the Federal Polytechnical University in Zurich and, during the latter part of his career, professor of medical psychology at Basel. At the Burghölzli, Jung had ample opportunity to apply his association tests to subjects with dementia praecox, and, after three years of investigation, he presented his findings in this book. In the first part, Jung gives a comprehensive survey of the theoretical literature on dementia praecox, integrating the contemporary theories about the disease. He was the first to offer a tentative psychosomatic explanation for dementia praecox in which the brain was the target organ. This meant that dementia praecox could be understood within a psychoanalytic framework, offering hope for patients who were borderline cases. It was also in this book that Jung drew international attention to Freud's fundamental theories.

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