@article{Bosetal, author = {Bos, Jaap and et al.,}, title = {Strategic self-marginalization: The case of psychoanalysis}, series = {Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2005), pp. 207-224. [Online ISSN 1520-6696] [doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20101]}, journal = {Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2005), pp. 207-224. [Online ISSN 1520-6696] [doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20101]}, abstract = {Marginality is an important concept in the history of science, though it is often used in a manner that presumes marginality to be a static designation. We contend that the dynamics of marginality are crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, a discipline that has moved between dominant and marginal positions. We address psychoanalytic marginality via three specific >cases<: the marginalization among Freud and his followers when psychoanalysis was an emergent discipline; the marginality trope in Erich Fromm's popular psychoanalytic writing when psychoanalysis was orthodoxy in American academic psychiatry; and the rhetorical marginality of psychoanalysis in Sweden as psychoanalysis entered a decline within psychiatry. Our aim is to show that marginalization and self-marginalization serve interpersonal, social, and professional strategies. (© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)}, language = {en} }