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(a) German Editions:
1913 In , Die psychanalytische [sic] Methode (Vol. 1 of Pädagogium), iv-vi, Leipzig and Berlin: Klinkhardt. (1921, 2nd ed.; 1924, 3rd ed.)
1928 G.S., 11, 244-6.
1931 Neurosenlehre und Technik, 315-18.
(b) English Translation:
Introduction to Pfister's The Psychoanalytic Method
1917 In , The Psychoanalytic Method, v-viii, New York: Moffat, Yard; London: Kegan Paul. (Tr. C. R. Payne.)
The present translation is a new one by James Strachey.
Dr. Oskar Pfister, a Zurich pastor and educationalist and the author of the work to which this is an introduction, was for thirty years a close friend of Freud's and an unswerving supporter of his views. He was one of the very first laymen to practise psycho-analysis, and the later part of Freud's introduction is perhaps his earliest published plea in favour of the recognition of non-medical psycho-analysts. He developed his argument at much greater length some twenty years later in The Question of Lay Analysis (1926e).