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.

Creates the definitive history of dynamic psychiatry — The Discovery of the Unconscious is the most thorough single scholarly account of the intellectual lineage from Mesmer and magnetic healing through Charcot, Janet, Freud, Adler, and Jung, providing the historical context without which these thinkers cannot be understood.