Henry Miller, the witty and now dead neurologist from Newcastle, said that one of the great challenges for 21st century medical historians would be to explain the obsession with psychoanalysis in the 20th century. How did thinking what was more cult than science take over American psychiatry and bewitch intellectuals? Seamus O’Mahony doesn’t specifically set out to answer that question in his wonderfully readable and funny book The Guru, the Bagman, and the Sceptic: a story of science, sex and psychoanalysis , but he provides some answers.1 The book is also filled with delicious and entertaining stories: the early pioneers of psychoanalysis and their patients may have been self-deceiving, but they were rarely boring. His book is built around the intertwined stories of three men. One of them, Sigmund Freud, the guru, is one of the best-known figures of the 20th century or any century. Ernest Jones, the bagman and disciple, translator, and biographer of Freud, a “psychoanalytic capo ,” is far from a household name but is well known in psychoanalytic and literary circles. In contrast, the surgeon, Wilfred Trotter, the person whom O’Mahony admires, is largely forgotten despite saving the life of George V and treating Freud. Jones, a lower-middle class, clever, and energetic boy from Swansea, qualified in medicine and met Trotter at University College Hospital. Jones called Trotter “my best friend—and apart from Freud—the man who mattered most in my life.” Trotter, a gifted and deeply humane surgeon and “a philosopher …

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精神分析的戏剧

来自纽卡斯尔、现已去世的机智神经学家亨利·米勒表示，21 世纪医学史学家面临的巨大挑战之一是解释 20 世纪对精神分析的痴迷。比科学更邪教的思想是如何接管美国精神病学并迷惑知识分子的？谢默斯·奥马霍尼（Seamus O'Mahony）在他的可读性极强且有趣的书《古鲁、推销员和怀疑论者：一个关于科学、性和精神分析的故事》中并没有专门回答这个问题，但他提供了一些答案。1这本书是还充满了有趣的故事：精神分析的早期先驱和他们的病人可能是自欺欺人，但他们很少无聊。他的书围绕三个男人交织在一起的故事展开。其中一位大师西格蒙德·弗洛伊德是 20 世纪或任何世纪最著名的人物之一。欧内斯特·琼斯（Ernest Jones）是弗洛伊德的推销员和弟子、翻译家和传记作者，“精神分析变调夹”，他的名字远非家喻户晓，但却在精神分析和文学界广为人知。相比之下，奥马霍尼敬佩的外科医生威尔弗雷德·特罗特尽管拯救了乔治五世的生命并治疗了弗洛伊德，但基本上被遗忘了。琼斯是来自斯旺西的中下阶层男孩，聪明、精力充沛，拥有医学资格，并在大学学院医院认识了特罗特。琼斯称特罗特为“我最好的朋友——除了弗洛伊德之外——他是我生命中最重要的人。”特罗特（Trotter）是一位才华横溢且富有人性的外科医生，也是“一位哲学家……