ABSTRACT
In this historical chapter, Professor Kahr considers Sigmund Freud’s relationship to the media, and attempts to explore why the father of psychoanalysis hated to cooperate with members of the general public and the press. Freud feared that, by doing so, he would discredit his fledgling profession of psychoanalysis, which had already endured many attacks from his fellow physicians in the fields of neurology and psychiatry. The author examines the impact of Freud’s suspicion towards the media upon the consequent marginalisation of psychoanalysis in both clinical psychiatry and clinical psychology. He then examines the ways in which the subsequent generation of psychoanalytical practitioners, many of whom still identified with Freud’s media caution, made contributions, nevertheless, to the dissemination of depth-psychological knowledge through radio and newspapers. These early practitioners included such iconic figures in the history of psychoanalysis as Professor Carl Gustav Jung, Dr. Ernest Jones, Dr. Edward Glover, and Dr. Donald Winnicott, among many others.
