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Holt, Robert Rutherford was born on December 27, 1917 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Son of Walter John Watson and Grace Lloyd Hilditch.
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FREUD REAPPRAISED is a comprehensive and authoritative critique of the fundamental theory of psychoanalysis. It is the first appraisal to consider the humanistic and philosophical as well as the biological, psychological, and medical aspects and antecedents of psychoanalytic theory. With the eye of a concerned friend rather than an attacker or defender, Robert R. Holt, an internationally recognized Freud scholar, presents an erudite analysis of the ills of psychoanalysis. The volume serves as a guide to the reading of Freud and offers a new depth of understanding of the many influences that affected Freud's thought and work. The volume opens with an historical overview that examines the meanings of the basic theory of psychoanalysis (which Freud called metapsychology), its relation to clinical theory, its development and personal significance to Freud. Dr. Holt also discusses Freud's cognitive style, showing how Freud's unique modes of thinking and writing can easily lend themselves to misinterpretation of his essential message. Three sections, which constitute the bulk of the work, respectively take up the economic, dynamic, and structural points of view that comprise metapsychology. Each section presents the origins and intellectual history of the major concepts and describes how Freud came to adopt them. Every segment of theory is examined for its underlying philosophical assumptions, its internal consistency, how well it squares with relevant facts, and how tenable it is by the canons of scientific methodology. Because Freud never ceased amending the theory while he lived, the approach takes into consideration the ways in which it developed. The book closes an assessment of psychoanalytic theory as a whole, discussion of major developments since Freud's death, and an appraisal of the prospects for its reform and reinvigoration. More comprehensive than other works on Freud's attempts to construct a scientific theory and more systematic in its consideration of all aspects of metapsychology, this book will be required reading for all serious students of psychoanalytic theory. Beginning students will find that it explains and clarifies much of what is mystifying or difficult to understand in Freud's work, while the most advanced scholars will be challenged to take a position on Holt's call for fundamental reform. Clinicians who use psychoanalytic theory to any extent will profit from its guidance in holding fast to the parts of Freud's work that have proved lastingly valuable while revising or discarding what is fallacious, anachronistic, or otherwise flawed. Those who are drawn to intellectual history, teachers of psychology and the other disciplines that have been impacted by psychoanalysis, and anyone who has been interested in Freud's ideas while having doubts, confusion, or misgivings about the theory will find the book valuable.
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Holt, Robert Rutherford was born on December 27, 1917 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Son of Walter John Watson and Grace Lloyd Hilditch.
Bachelor with highest honors, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1939. Master of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1944.
Research assistant, Harvard Psychological Clinic, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941-1944;
study director division program surveys, B.A.E., Washington, 1944-1946;
instructor, American U., Washington, 1944;
clinical psychologist, Winter Veterans Administration Hospital., Topeka, 1946-1949;
clinical assistant professor psychology, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1946-1950;
associate psychologist, The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, 1947-1949;
senior psychologist research department, The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, 1949-1953;
director psychological staff, 1951-1953;
associate professor psychology Graduate School Arts and Science, New York University, 1953-1958;
director Research Center for Mental Health, New York University, 1953-1963;
professor psychology, New York University, New York City, 1958-1988;
professor psychology emeritus, New York University, New York City, since 1988;
with associated consortium faculty, CUNY, New York City, since 1989. Tutor, teaching fellow Harvard University and Radcliffe College, Cambridge, 1941-1944. Lecturer Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1949-1953.
Part-time pvt.practice of diagnostic testing, New York City, 1953-1960. Member fellowship committee Founds. Fund for Research in Psychiatry, 1956-1961.
Co-director Research Center for Mental Health, New York University, 1963-1969, member arts and science research fund committee, 1964-1968, 75-76, institutional grants committee, 1970-1974, Center for Humanistic Studies, 1976-1977, graduate curriculum committee, 1982-1983, director program in peace &global policy studies, 1985-1989. Fellowship review panel National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Mental Health, 1963-1965. Visiting professor clinical psychology Harvard University, 1967-1968.
Board science advisors Environmental Research Fund, since 1971. William V. Silverberg memorial lecturer American Academy Psychoanalysis, 1973. Sandor Rado memorial lecturer Columbia University Institute Psychoanalysis, 1978.
Phillips Distinguished Visiting Haverford College, 1980. With Exploratory Project on Conditions of Peace, 1984-1988, treasurer 1985-1986. Advising committee Center for War and the Child, since 1989.
Consultant in field.
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Member Village Indiana Democrats, New York City, 1953-1988. Head New York chapter Council for a Livable World, New York City, 1958-1959. Member council Congress of Scientists on Survival, New York City, 1962-1964.
Chairman Recycling Committee, Truro, Massachusetts, since 1992, secretary Truro Democratic Committee, since 2005. Member Board of Health Truro, 1994-1995. Chairman Truro Committee Defense Civil Rights, 2004.
Vice chairman Energy Committee, Truro, since 2005. Fellow American Psychological Association (council representatives 1954-1956, 61-63, president division clinical psychology 1961-1962, past president 1962-1963, committee on nominations and elections 1948-1950, 54-58, chairman 1956-1957, 62-63, executive committee 1951-1953, 54-57, 60-63, chairman conference organization committee 1961-1963, awards committee 1964-1965, Distinguished Contributions award 1974), American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Society Political Psychology (board governors 1988-1990, awards committee 1989), International Peace Research Association, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, Federation American Scientists, International Society for Systems Science, Council Research in Bibliography (president 1965-1973), Union of Concerned Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists, Inc. (advisory board 1988-1990), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Louisa C. Pinkham, February 1944 (divorced 1952). Children: Dorothy O. Prickett, Catherine F. Married Crusa Adelman, December 1957 (deceased 1959).
Married Joan Esterowitz, August 2, 1963. Children: Daniel W.E., Michael D.