Psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe: repression and rebirth

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January, 2018

This  paper of the dossier Psy cultures: psychoanalysis, subjectivity and politics (HCSM vol.24  supl.1,  2017) presents the history of psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe.

The Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud.

Judit Mészáros, from the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society, traces the reception and roots of psychoanalysis in Hungary and in former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in different periods of the twentieth century.

The paper also examines  the consequences of communist regimes  for psychoanalysis and for psychoanalysts in these countries and the impact of Jewish immigration in the 1920s and 1930s.

Mészáros, Judit. The saga of psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe: repression and rebirth in Hungary, and in former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2017, vol.24, suppl.1.

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos vol.24  supl.1 Rio de Janeiro  2017

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