O’Mahony gives an excellent account of the rise of psychoanalysis, and its cult-like nature. Trotter missed Freud’s speech and was to become increasingly sceptical about psychoanalysis. He received a standing ovation but, Jones wrote, in deference to Freud’s dislike of debate, “papers read at psychoanalytic congresses have never been followed by discussion of them”. Freud spoke for five hours without a break. In 1908 they attended the first international psychoanalytic conference in Salzburg, organised by Carl Jung. Trotter and Jones had both been interested in psychoanalysis and learned German so that they could read the literature. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.Now retired, in his latest book, The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis, he has turned his witty and critical eye to Freud (the guru of his title), Freud’s biographer and associate Ernest Jones (the bagman) and the now obscure English surgeon Wilfred Trotter (the sceptic). He laments that he largely missed out on this, as he graduated in 1983. Seamus O’Mahony is an Irish physician who has written three highly readable books regretting what he sees as the degeneration of medicine and the medical profession, with institutionalisation, the “medico-industrial complex”, the medicalisation of death and the steady loss of the autonomy that doctors had in what he calls the “golden age of medicine”. I doubt if my parents took all of Freud’s theories as gospel truth, but in the middle of the last century, psychoanalysis was immensely influential, although it is now largely debunked. I was brought up, therefore, to take Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis seriously, and there were several of his books on my parents’ bookshelves, which I inherited after they died. She emerged six weeks later, cured, her pain and bruises gone.
Eventually, in despair, my parents wondered if there might be some deep underlying psychological cause, and my mother was admitted to hospital for intensive in-patient psychoanalysis. Only arsenic helped, though it was to cause a rare skin cancer years later. All treatment failed, including having the family pets put down in case the problem was an allergic one. When I was very young, my mother fell ill with painful, haemorrhagic bruises over her joints, and became increasingly disabled.
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