Abraham Brill
Abraham Arden Brill (October 12, 1874 – March 2, 1948) was an Austrian Empire-born psychiatrist who spent almost his entire adult life in the United States. He was the first psychoanalyst to practice in the United States and the first translator of Sigmund Freud into English.[1]
Education
Life
Brill married K. Rose Owen, with whom he had two children. He died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on March 2, 1948 at age 73.[2]
Career
After studying with Eugen Bleuler in Zurich, Switzerland,[1] he met Freud, with whom he maintained a correspondence until Freud's death in 1939.[1] He returned to the United States in 1908 to become one of the earliest and most active exponents of psychoanalysis, being the first to translate into English most of the major works of Freud, as well as books by Jung. His first translation of Freud appeared in 1909 as Some Papers on Hysteria;[2] and while the quality of his translations might at times be challenged, his overall contribution to the fostering of psychoanalysis in America cannot.[3] He campaigned for academic recognition of his field, lectured at Columbia University, and became clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University.[1] He maintained a psychoanalytic practice as well. Edward Bernays consulted with Brill on the subject of women's smoking and borrowed the term "torches of freedom" from Brill.[4] One of his last pieces of writing - his preface to Eric Berne's 1947 study, The Mind in Action - commends Berne's ability to "expound the new psychology without the affectivity of the older Freudians", placing his tribute in the context of himself "having read everything written on Freud and psychoanalysis since I first introduced him here".[5]
Publications
- Psychoanalysis: Its Theories and Practical Application (1912)
- Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis (1921)
- Translations of Freud
- Selected Papers on Hysteria (1909)
- Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (1910)
- The Interpretation of Dreams (1913)
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1914)
- Selected papers on hysteria and other psychoneuroses (1912)
- Leonardo da Vinci: A PSYCHOSEXUAL STUDY OF AN INFANTILE REMINISCENCE (1916)
- Wit and its relation to the unconscious (1917)
- Totem and Taboo (1919)
- Studies in Hysteria (1937)
- Translations of Jung
- Psychology of Dementia Praecox (1909)
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mishne, Judith Marks (1993). The Evolution and Application of Clinical Theory: Perspective from Four Psychologies. NY: The Free Press. p. 33. ISBN 9780029216354.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dr. A.A. Brill Dies; Psychiatrist, 73" (PDF). New York Times. March 3, 1948. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
- ↑ Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1964) p. 335-6 and p. 563-4
- ↑
{{citation}}: Empty citation (help) - ↑ Preface, Eric Berne, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (1976) p. 13-4
Further reading
- Nathan G. Hale: The rise and crisis of psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans 1917–1985 (New York, 1995)
External links
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