Description - Papers on Psycho-Analysis by Ernest Jones
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF THE WORD-ASSOCIATION METHOD IN THE TREATMENT OF THE PSYCHONEUROSES l Study of the. association-reactions, the inception of which we owe to Sir Francis Galton's work, carried out over thirty years ago, has proved to be equally fruitful for both psychology and psychopathology, and is now one of the most valuable methods at our disposal for investigating the constellations of mental functioning. In a recent paper Gallus2 remarks: 'Unter den psychologischen Versuchsanordnungen, die die Wissenschaft in so mannigfacher Gestaltung fiir die verschiedensten Zwecke bereits gestellt hat, hat wohl keine in der Praxis eine reichere Anwendung und intensivere Verbreitung gefunden als die Assoziationspriifung.' [' Of the modes of psychological investigation with which science has already furnished us in such manifold form and for the most diverse purposes, none has found a richer or more extensive application in practice than the association test.'] At the present time the method is in regular daily use with a large number of neurologists and psychiatrists in Germany and America. During the past nine years the Zurich school, under the guidance of Bleuler, and particularly of Jung,3 has very greatly increased the value of the method by the discovery of fundamental laws which had previously been overlooked, by the definite establishment of the theory of the procedure, and by the demonstration of its practical applicability. So far as I am aware, Jung's work has not been discussed by any English writer; in America it has met with wide recognition, and has already given rise to a considerable literature. The object of the present paper is to call the attention of those who may not be familiar with the method to some of its...
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