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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 137, No. 1

REGULAR ARTICLES | January 01, 1980

1979 anniversaries

Am J Psychiatry 1980;137:56-60.

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In 1979 Mesmer's Memoire sur la decouverte du magnestisme animal appeared in Paris. Although Mesmer believed in physical rather than psychological causes, his work in healing through suggestion marks the beginning of modern psychotherapy. In 1879 several state mental hospitals opened in the United States, amid controversies between the medical profession and the public over the treatment of mental illness. Ernest Jones, a pioneer in the establishment of psychonanalysis and author of the most comprehensive and authoritative biography of Freud, was born that same year.

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