| The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement | |
| Title Orig: | Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung |
| Translator: | A.A. Brill (English version) |
| Author: | Sigmund Freud |
| Language: | German |
| Subject: | Psychoanalysis |
| Published: | Journal article (German): 1914 Book (English translation): 1917 Book (German): 1924 |
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The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement is the 1917 English translation[1] of a 1914 German article, (German: Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung),[2] by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, which was later published in German as a separate work in 1924.[3]
Freud's work was intended primarily as a polemic against the competing theories in psychotherapy which opposed his psychoanalysis; for example, those of Alfred Adler's individual psychology and Carl Jung's analytical psychology.
Adler and Jung had previously been followers of Freud but objected to his emphasis on sexual matters. Freud's main criticism of them was their insistence on still calling themselves psychoanalysts.