Ernest Jones
Welsh neurologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1879–1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alfred Ernest Jones FRCP MRCS (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world. As President of both the International Psychoanalytical Association and the British Psycho-Analytical Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Jones exercised a formative influence in the establishment of their organisations, institutions and publications.[1]
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Born | (1879-01-01)1 January 1879 Gowerton, Wales |
Died | 11 February 1958(1958-02-11) (aged 79) London, England |
Nationality | Welsh |
Alma mater | University College London |
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