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‘Psychotherapy’: the invention of a word

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, s.shamdasani{at}ucl.ac.uk

This paper traces the manner in which the word ‘psychotherapy’ was invented and how it became taken up and disseminated in the English-, French- and German-speaking medical worlds at the end of the 19th century. It explores how it was used as an appellation for a variety of practices, and then increasingly became perceived as a distinct entity in its own right. Finally it shows how the fate of the word ‘psychotherapy’ enables Freud’s invention of ‘psychoanalysis’ to be located.

Key Words: Bernheim • Freud • hypnosis • psychoanalysis • psychotherapy • Tuke

History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1-22 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0952695105051123


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