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Ernest Jones
1879–1958
A key early champion of psychoanalysis in the English-speaking world, this Welsh doctor helped bring Freud’s ideas to Britain and America. He is also remembered for writing the major early biography of 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 first important English-language advocates of Freud’s work and played a central role in establishing psychoanalysis as an organized profession in Britain.
Jones helped found and lead major psychoanalytic institutions, including the British Psychoanalytical Society, and he also served in leading roles internationally. His influence was practical as well as intellectual: he promoted psychoanalytic training, publishing, and discussion at a time when the field was still new and often controversial.
He is especially well known today as Sigmund Freud’s friend, supporter, and official biographer. His three-volume life of Freud became a landmark work, and his own memoirs offer a vivid window into the early history of psychoanalysis. Jones died in London in 1958.