ABSTRACT
By the early 1990s the history of psychiatry had entered a fresh professional scholarly phase, and in good part this can be credited to the influence of the pioneering work of Henri F. Ellenberger. This is true even though his 1970 The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry was massive and detailed. Part One of Beyond the Unconscious includes three of Ellenberger's papers: one on Fechner and Freud, another on Moritz Benedikt, and a third on Freud's 1886 lecture on masculine hysteria. Part Two includes Ellenberger on Charcot and his school, Janet as a philosopher, the scope of Swiss psychology, and a fascinating article on the life and work of Hermann Rorschach. Part Three is concerned with "the great patients": psychiatry and its unknown history. Part Four deals with themes in the history of psychiatric ideas: the fallacies of psychiatric classification, the concept of creative malady, and the pathogenic secret and its therapeutics.
