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Ernest Jones
1879–1958
A pioneering psychoanalyst who helped bring Freud’s ideas to the English-speaking world, this Welsh doctor became one of the key builders of modern psychoanalysis. He is also remembered for the influential three-volume biography that helped shape how later generations understood Sigmund Freud.
2 Audiobooks
Der Alptraum in seiner Beziehung zu gewissen Formen des mittelalterlichen Aberglaubens Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde. Vierzehntes Heft
by Ernest Jones
Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses
by Sándor Ferenczi, Karl Abraham, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Ernst Simmel
About the author
Born in Wales in 1879, Ernest Jones trained in medicine and began his career in neurology before turning to psychoanalysis. He became one of the earliest English-speaking practitioners of the field and played a major part in introducing and promoting it in Britain and North America.
Jones was a close associate of Sigmund Freud after meeting him in 1908, and he went on to become one of Freud’s strongest advocates in the English-speaking world. He helped found major psychoanalytic institutions, including the British Psychoanalytical Society and the American Psychoanalytic Association, and he also coined the term "rationalization."
He is especially well known as Freud’s official biographer, writing the landmark three-volume The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. Beyond his writing, he is also credited with helping Freud, Anna Freud, and other analysts escape Nazi-ruled Austria. Jones died in London in 1958.