Includes bibliographical references.

The ancestry of dynamic psychotherapy -- The emergence of dynamicpsychiatry -- The first dynamic psychiatry (1775-1900) -- The background of dynamic psychiatry -- On the threshold of a new dynamic psychiatry -- Pierre Janet and psychological analysis -- Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis -- Alfred Adler and individual psychology -- Carl Gustav Jung and analytical psychology -- The dawn and rise of the new dynamic psychiatry

This classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man€™s search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind. In an account that is both exhaustive and exciting, the distinguished psychiatrist and author demonstrates the long chain of development—through the exorcists, magnetists, and hypnotists—that led to the fruition of dynamic psychiatry in the psychological systems of Janet, Freud, Adler, and Jung.