The Watchdog of Psychoanalysis
The Toronto connections of Ernest Jones are explored in a new biography May 2007
The name of Ernest Jones is not much heard these days, and yet he was as pivotal to the dissemination of psychoanalysis and Freudianism as T.H. Huxley was to the science of Darwinism. And he had a Canadian connection. Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones, Brenda Maddox’s recent prize-winning biography, coincides with the centennial of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of…