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The Assault on Freud: A critique of the works of Jeffrey Masson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. F. Bristow
M. F. Bristow*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF
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When a neurologist called Freud presented his findings on hysteria in 1895, his suggestion that it was caused by childhood sexual trauma met with angry disbelief among his colleagues. Over the next ten years he decided that the traumas must have been fantasies, and proposed a set of psychic mechanisms to explain the creation and subsequent concealment of these fantasies. The rest is history, or rather psychoanalysis.

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Books Reconsidered
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 160 , Issue 5 , May 1992 , pp. 722 - 724
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992 

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