Jelliffe: American Psychoanalyst & Physician & His Correspondence with Sigmund Freud & C.G. Jung
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Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866-1945) was a distinguished American physician who became one of the 1st psychoanalysts. This book, an account of his life & times, also includes his hitherto unpublished correspondence with Sigmund Freud & C.G. Jung, a correspondence of nearly 30 years which continued long after the break between the two. John Burnham, historian of medicine & psychoanalysis, & William McGuire, executive editor of Jung's collected works, have based this book on the recently discovered Jelliffe papers, once believed to have been lost in a fire. Jelliffe's colorful & versatile career led him from botany & neurology (he was coauthor of a neurology text that remained standard for some 40 years) to psychiatry, psychoanalysis (of which he was a founding father in the USA) & psychosomatic medicine (in which he also pioneered). Jelliffe also made outstanding contributions to medical journalism. With William Alanson White he founded the Psychoanalytic Review, & his work as editor of the Journal of Nervous & Mental Diseasefrom 1902 to 1944 may have set a record for editorial longevity. Jelliffe was a charismatic speaker & teacher who in all his roles induced physicians & other thinkers to explore new ideas & ways of thinking. Jelliffe's correspondence with Jung & Freud illuminates the personal & professional lives of the three men. The letters help to clarify concepts in both the Jungian & Freudian schools. The shifting emphasis of Jelliffe's relationships with the two masters of psychoanalysis—1st when the two were colleagues, then for the greater span of time when they were adversaries—is revealing of Jenlliffe's own flexible views. Jelliffe, furthermore, provides insights into the history of medicine & medical institutions & customs thru Jelliffe's frank accounts of the developing medical profession in America. Jelliffe describes, for example, what it was like for a young MD to set up an economically viable practice in the 1890s. In addition, Burnham explores the problem of measuring the influence of a man like Jelliffe upon the history of ideas & institutions.
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