• History of Psychiatry

    The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement

    Chapter I by Sigmund Freud, translated by A. A. Brill I I Sigmund Freud A. A. Brill If in what follows I bring any contribution to the history of the psychoanalytic movement nobody must be surprised at the subjective nature of this paper, nor at the rôle which falls to me therein. For psychoanalysis is my creation; for ten years I was the only one occupied with it, and all the annoyance which this new subject caused among my contemporaries has been hurled upon my head in the form of criticism. Even today, when I am no longer the only psychoanalyst, I feel myself justified in assuming that none can…