Abraham Brill
Abraham Arden Brill (born October 12, 1874 in Kańczuga , Austria-Hungary , † March 2, 1948 in New York City ) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of Austrian origin. He contributed significantly to the spread of classical psychoanalysis in the United States.
Youth and education
In 1889, at the age of almost 15 , Abraham Brill emigrated to the United States alone, without his family and without any fortune. He worked and made money to get a high school degree. He then studied at New York University and then at Columbia University and graduated in 1904 as a doctor of medicine with an MD .
From 1902 to 1908 he visited Europe. In Zurich he got to know Eugen Bleuler , Karl Abraham and CG Jung at the psychiatric university clinic there and was made familiar with Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis , which he also visited in April 1908 in Vienna. Soon after, he returned to the United States, where he met Freud, Jung and Sándor Ferenczi again in 1909 when they were in America at Clark University .
Influence on the spread of psychoanalysis
Brill was one of the earliest and most active exponents of psychoanalysis in the United States. Together with 15 other doctors, he founded the "Psychoanalytic Association New York" in 1911 and was its president from 1911 to 1913 and from 1925 to 1936. In 1914 he also became a member of the "American Psychoanalytic Association" founded by Ernest Jones and took over its presidency in the years 1919/1920 and from 1929 to 1935. His influence in this position he also used to gain membership in both associations Doctors restrict. Unlike Freud, who promoted and defended psychoanalysis by non-physicians, Brill believed that the survival of psychoanalysis in the United States depended on maintaining medical status.
He taught at New York University and Columbia University, was a practicing psychoanalyst and, in addition to numerous essays, wrote several works on the principles and concepts of psychoanalysis. He ensured the early and widespread dissemination of psychoanalysis in the United States primarily by being the first to translate Freud's main works and also books by CG Jung into English.
The Abraham A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Association, probably the largest psychoanalytic library in the world, bears his name.
Fonts
- Psychoanalysis: Its Theories and Practical Application (1912)
- Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis . (1921)
literature
- Nathan G. Hale: The rise and crisis of psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans 1917-1985 . Oxford University Press, New York 1995
- Brill, Abraham , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation from French. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 140f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Abraham Brill in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arnold D. Richards: Brill, Abraham Arden (1874-1948). In: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis . Thomson Gale, Detroit 2005.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brill, Abraham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brill, Abraham Arden |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychoanalyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kańczuga |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1948 |
| Place of death | New York City |