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Popular Psychoanalysis 1 – Bill McRae, ‘The Psychology of Nervousness’
William A McRae, The Psychology of Nervousness: The Mind In Conflict, OUP, 1942. In The Psychology of Nervousness McRae sets out to write ‘the story of our inner judge and jury whose task it is to mete...
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“Foundations of Behaviour”– McRae’s lecture series – Perth, Western...
William McRae, The Foundations of Behaviour, Melbourne, OUP, 1945. Writing of Western Australian Bill McRae in her history of psychoanalysis in Australia, Freud in the Antipodes, Joy Damousi asserts...
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A Letter Home – Ruth Thomas
Ruth Thomas was born in Sydney in 1902. She a graduate of Sydney’s Fort Street School and continued onwards to Sydney University to study psychology and, in 1923, the founding year of the Australian...
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The Visit of Anita Muhl, Psychiatrist, to Melbourne: 1939-1941
In her 2005 book, Freud in the Antipodes,, Joy Damousi writes of the visit of the American Psychiatrist, Dr Anita Muhl, to Australia from Feruary 1939 to the end of 1941, to provide education and...
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Miss L’s Dream Diary – Seeking ‘Dr W’.
Once in a while in the business of researching and writing history a rare document emerges from the archive boxes. Such items are the products of serendipity; the result of a decision made by their...
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A diary of an analysis 1: Meeting ‘Dr W’.
The patient, a woman aged 25 when the analysis begins, is a Londoner. I shall call her ‘Matilda’. Her diary begins in May 1944 and continues until the end of the war. I met Matilda for the first time...
View ArticleChild Evacuation Planning: Clara Geroe’s suggestion – 1942.
From 1939 as Japanese forces made their way south through China and the Asian peninsula towards Darwin, the Australian government became concerned about the vulnerability of the coastal cities to...
View ArticleThe end of the dream: Clara Lazar Geroe and the Melbourne Institute of...
On 17th August 1940 the Sydney based psychoanalyst Roy Coupland Winn wrote to Clara Geroe,the Hungarian trained psychoanalyst who had arrived in Australia on a refugee Visa five months earlier....
View ArticleThe ‘dominant minority’: doctors, poets, and psychoanalysis: 1940s Australia
A little note appears in the Australian Medical Journal – as part of the proceedings of the British Medical Association. The date is January 27 1945 and the page number is 93.. A correspondent want to...
View ArticleObservations Upon Group Therapy, Dr Paul Dane’s comments and introduction of...
And so, on the quest to find how psychoanalysis threaded its way through Australian life and culture, I have been perusing the Medical Journal of Australia in the State Library of Victoria. One year,...
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