Of course this was also at a time when psychotherapists were called
'alienists' and psychologists were, well, psychologists. I'd like to
hear the history of how the appellation 'alienist' came about.
Annette
Quoting "Christopher D. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I just ran across this interesting article on the history of the term
"psychotherapy." History of the Human Sciences is a European journal
which can sometimes be a little difficult for Americans to come by. If
you do not have it in your local library, but would like a copy, I
would be willing to send you the .pdf off-list.
Shamdasani, Sonu. (2005). 'Psychotherapy': the invention of a word.
History of the Human Sciences, 1, 1-22.
Abstract
This paper traces the manner in which the word 'psychotherapy' was
invented and how it became taken up and disseminated in the English-,
French- and German-speaking medical worlds at the end of the 19th
century. It explores how it was used as an appellation for a variety of
practices, and then increasingly became perceived as a distinct entity
in its own right. Finally it shows how the fate of the word
'psychotherapy' enables Freud's invention of 'psychoanalysis' to be
located.
Regards,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
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