Psyche. XL, 1986: George Devereux. Toward the Understanding of Psychoanalysis as an Epistemological and General Cultural Discipline. Brigitte Milkau-Kaufmann and Florian Rötzer. Pp. 665-677.

The authors review details of Devereux's biography, from his birth in Hungary in 1908, his early years in Paris as a student of theoretical physics, his shift to ethnology, and his eventual move to sociology and psychology. In 1932 Devereux emigrated to the United States and conducted field research on the Hopi and Mohave Indians. He later studied the Papuan and Indonesian peoples. Upon his return to the United States he taught and carried out research at various psychiatric institutions in Massachusetts and in Topeka, where he became a psychoanalyst. From 1959 to 1963 he was in private practice in New York, and taught ethnopsychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. His training analysis began in German with Jokl, continued in Hungarian with Róheim, and finished in French with Schlumberger. After 1963 he returned to Paris to the École Pratique des Hautes Études to continue his research in ethnopsychiatry, a science he had virtually founded. He died in France in 1986.

Devereux's primary theoretical interests focused on the epistemological basis of