Article: Freud Comes to America

FREUD COMES TO AMERICA

A New Approach to Psychology

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist who fashioned a dynamic theory of psychology of human behavior based on the workings of the unconscious mind, achieved world prominence by virtue of his highly publicized visit in September 1909 to Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Clark had built a strong psychology program under president and leading psychologist G. Stanley Hall, who invited Freud to lecture as part of the festivities celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the university's founding. Freud's trip to Clark was his only trip to the United States.

Psychoanalysis

Freud had first set forth his concepts of ...

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