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Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology
Academic journal article from International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 89, No. 1
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Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology by George Prochnik Other Press, New York, 2006; 471 pp; $29.95
George Prochnik, the son of a Viennese Jew and the great-grandson of James Jackson Putnam, has written a fascinating account of the relationship between his great-grandfather, a Boston Brahmin neurologist, and Sigmund Freud, the Viennese Jewish neurologist who founded psychoanalysis. Putnam's association with Freud began during Freud's trip to the United States to deliver a series of lectures on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
Though Putnam had been interested in …
