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(2009) The transnational unconscious, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

The travelling psychoanalyst

Andrew Peto and transnational explorations of psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York

Joy Damousi

pp. 127-144

When the Hungarian born psychoanalyst, Andrew Peto, rose in August 1951 to address a small audience who had assembled in a room at British Medical Association House in Macquarie Street, Sydney, it is true to say that a historic moment had arrived. Peto's inaugural paper on the prevention of juvenile delinquency, to the newly constituted Sydney Institute of Psychoanalysis, christened the birth of a new institution. The institute was barely two-months old, having been formed by Peto, the leading Sydney psychoanalyst Roy Winn and Siegfried Fink. Fink, like Peto, was a European immigrant who had arrived in 1938 from Germany; he worked in the health services to have his medical qualifications recognised, and then became a practicing analyst in Sydney.

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582705_6

Full citation:

Damousi, J. (2009)., The travelling psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and transnational explorations of psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York, in J. Damousi & M. Ben Plotkin (eds.), The transnational unconscious, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-144.

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