The 10,000 Minds Project commissioned two major studies related to psychoanalysis and undergraduate education, each thefirst of their kind. Both studies generated invaluable information. by Jonathan Redmond and Michael Shulman
Journal of theAmerican Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)
June 2008; 56:02 391-408.
To determine the prevalence of teaching about psychoanalytic ideas in the undergraduate curricula of 150 highly ranked colleges and universities, a software-based search was conducted to find references to psychoanalytic content in published course catalogues. This article summarizes those findings. Related news articles"Freud is widely taught at universities, except in the psychology department"
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