Katja Guenther
Assistant Professor, History of Science Program, Princeton University
In the medicine of mind and brain, the "neuro" and the "psy" disciplines - neurology, neurosurgery and neuroscience on the one hand, psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis on the other - have generally been considered as opposed in both their theory and practice. I aim to recast their relationship by focusing on Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941), a major proponent and founding figure of the neurological tradition in Germany, and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) the father of psychoanalysis. An examination of their common engagement with sensory-motor, or reflex, physiology, as presented by the dominant neuropsychiatry in nineteenth-century Germany, allows us to think these different fields alongside each other and recognize unexpected parallels in their development, theory and practice.
5pm, Tuesday 12 February 2013
Medawar G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre, University College London
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