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Modern Psychotherapy—150 Years Ago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Ernest Harms
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Psychotherapy and what we understand by it today is commonly considered as entirely a product of the last fifty years of psychological and psychiatric development. The psychiatry of the past century is looked upon as a savage and uncultivated field which does not appear to warrant any attention. In a previously published paper I pointed out the strange contradictory development which the field of psychiatry has undergone during the past two hundred years, interchanging material-physicological periods with those primarily psychological. Each period has violently rejected the previous one and with it the total earlier development. This explains why the earlier development seems to be so completely forgotten. Only a few names are known which are pointed upon as forerunners, but no one has seriously attempted to go back over the last contradictory period into the preceding one with a similar basic attitude, for instance the psychologistical period of the first quarter of the past century. This should be of considerable interest to the psychological period we have been experiencing during the past decades.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 433 , October 1957 , pp. 804 - 809
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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