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Psychoanalysis in the Netherlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Ilse N. Bulhof
Affiliation:
Katholieke Theologische Hogeschool Utrecht and Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht

Extract

In this article I will first investigate the response Freudian psychoanalysis received in the Netherlands from 1905, when the first Dutch analyst began to practice psychoanalysis, until the beginning of World War II. Then I will briefly describe the development of psychoanalysis after the war.

In the Netherlands as elsewhere Freudian psychoanalysis was transmitted first to the medical profession, that is to say, to a segment of the Dutch social elite. From there, Freud's ideas spread to other parts of the elite, especially the intellectuals and the religious leaders, after which psychoanalysis was filtered down to the public at large in a form the elite thought appropriate to it.

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Type
The Cultural Diffusion of Freudian Thought
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1982

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