Abraham Brill
Abraham Arden Brill (October 12, 1874 – March 2, 1948) was an Austrian Empire-born
Education
Brill was born in Kańczuga, Austrian Galicia, to Jewish parents. He arrived in the United States alone and penniless at the age of 15. Working continuously to finance his studies,[2] he eventually graduated from New York University in 1901 and obtained his M.D. from Columbia University in 1903.[3] Ernest Jones commented with admiration: "He might have been called a rough diamond, but there was no doubt about the diamond".[2] Brill spent the next four years working at Central Islip State Hospital on Long Island.[3]
Life
Brill married K. Rose Owen, with whom he had two children. He died at
Career
After studying with
In 1911 he founded the
Once sympathetic to homosexuals, he revised his views and wrote in 1940 that "even so-called classical inverts are not entirely free from some paranoid traits".[9]
Edward Bernays consulted with Brill on the subject of women's smoking and borrowed the term "torches of freedom" from Brill.[10]
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".[11]
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
- ^ ISBN 9780029216354.
- ^ a b P. Gay, Freud (1989) p. 209
- ^ a b c d "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
- ^ P. Gay, Freud (1989) p. 495-8
- ^ P. Gay, Freud (1989) p. 499-500
- ^ Muckenhoupt, Margaret (1997). Sigmund Freud: Explorer of the Unconscious. NY: Oxford University Press. p. 133.
- ISBN 9780674004375.
- ISBN 9780226793665.
- ^ 1929 Torches of Freedom, The Museum of Public Relations, archived from the original on July 15, 2014, retrieved March 11, 2014
- ^ 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
- Works by Abraham Brill at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Abraham Brill at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)