Sigmund freud biography ernest jones

The name Alfred Ernest Jones might mean very little to most people but, for some time, this enigmatic and fascinating man was the leader of the psychoanalytical movement in Britain and many years later was voted number 96 in the list of top 100 Welshmen of all time.

Perhaps more importantly, Ernest Jones wrote and produced the definitive biography of the great Sigmund Freud - a work that even now, over 50 years after it first appeared, is still regarded as a classic text.

Jones was born in Gowerton, just outside Swansea, on 1 January 1879.

Educated at Llandovery College, he went on to study at University College Cardiff and University College London.

In 1901 he was awarded a first-class honours degree in medicine and obstetrics. He followed this with an MD and, in 1903, membership of the Royal College of Physicians.

Ernest Jones specialised in neurology and, in his early years in practice, worked mainly in hospitals in the London ar Life And Work Of Sigmund Freud: Jones, Ernest: 9780140206616 ...

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