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history of psychology

3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Henri F. Ellenberger

Swiss-Canadian psychiatrist and historian — author of The Discovery of the Unconscious — who wrote the most comprehensive history of dynamic psychiatry from Mesmer through Freud, Jung, Adler, and Janet.

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Sonu Shamdasani

British-Sri Lankan historian of psychology at University College London who is the world's foremost Jung scholar — having edited The Red Book (2009) and The Black Books (2020), written Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology, and providing the most rigorous historical account of analytical psychology's development.

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Book

The Discovery of the Unconscious

Henri Ellenberger's 1970 magnum opus — tracing the history of dynamic psychiatry from Mesmer through Freud, Jung, Adler, and Janet — the most comprehensive history of the unconscious concept.

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