Word: ferenczi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...training is prerequisite and of which the aim is enlightened citizenship, entered its eighth year with the following, among other notables, scheduled to lecture: Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College (history, sociology); Dr. John B. Watson, onetime psychology chief at Johns Hopkins, author of Behaviorism (psychology); Dr. S. Ferenczi of Hungary, colleag of Dr. Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis...
...subject of his greatest work). It distinguished him in the comparative psychology of animals. He was the first American psychologist to give any credit to psychoanalysis, and though always critical of its pretensions, he brought it sharply to the attention of the scientific world by inviting Freud, Jung, Jones, Ferenczi, Brill and other leading psychologists of Europe and America to a conference at Worcester in 1907, at which they fraternized with James and other leading academic psychologists. Hall wasted no time striving for perfect psychological orthodoxy, and was sometimes a bit under suspicion with his colleagues. But his mind...