ABSTRACT
Although at a much slower pace, the study of the history of psychoanalysis has also been moving into a genuinely professional phase. Until now, practicing analysts have had a secure hold on the subject, which unfortunately has meant that questions of organizational allegiances and ideological quarrelling have dominated. Recent research among scholars is not bound by the old needs to propagandize (or debunk) psychoanalysis. While within medicine the traditional practice of psychoanalysis has come under substantial new criticism, among academic historians interest in the development of Freud’s school has been expanding. It is now clearer than ever that Freud changed the way we think about ourselves.
