biography
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Jones, (Alfred) Ernest
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1958)
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| biography:
| Psychoanalyst, born in Llwchwy, S Wales, UK. He studied at University College, Cardiff, and qualified as a physician in London. Medical journalism and neurological research brought him into contact with the work of Sigmund Freud. He introduced psychoanalysis into Britain and North America, founded the British Psycho-Analytical Society (1913), as well as the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, which he edited (1920–33). He was professor of psychiatry at Toronto (1909–12) and director of the London Clinic for Psycho-Analysis. Among his numerous works and translations is a psychoanalytical study of Hamlet and Oedipus, and an authoritative biography of Freud (1953–7). |
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