PEP | Article - Psychopathology, Primitive Medicine and Primitive Culture: Erwin H. Ackerknecht. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, XIV, 1943, pp. 30–67.

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Abstract

According to the viewpoint taken by the author of this learned and interesting paper, anything that a given society calls 'normal' is normal. He has a very decided bias against psychoanalysis, and seems to think that psychoanalysts are intent on proving that everybody is abnormal. The paper would have gained much had the author differentiated between mechanisms characteristic of certain neuroses and the neuroses themselves.