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Georges Devereux (born György Dobó; 13 September 1908 – 28 May 1985) was a Hungarian- French
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and
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, often considered the founder of ethnopsychiatry.Andrew P. Lyons, Harriet D. Lyons, ''Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality''
(Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology), Paperback Edition, University of Nebraska Press, 2005, pp. 243-249
He was born into a
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family in the
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, Austria-Hungary (now Romania). His family moved to France following World War I. He studied the
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in Paris, completing work at the ''Institut d'Ethnologie''. In 1933 he converted to Catholicism and changed his name to Georges Devereux. At that time, he traveled for the first time to the United States to do fieldwork among the Mohave Indians, completing his doctorate in anthropology at
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in 1936. In the postwar years, Devereux became a
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, working with the Winter Veterans Hospital and
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in
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. He treated Native Americans by drawing on his anthropology background. A pioneer, he is "well regarded among French and American scholars interested in psychoanalytic anthropology". Devereux taught at several colleges in the United States, returning to Paris about 1962 at the invitation of anthropologist
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. He was appointed as director of studies of Section VI at the noted
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(EPHE) in Paris, where he worked from 1963 to 1981. In addition, he had a private clinical practice. Devereux published more than 400 texts. In 1993 the Centre George Devereux was founded in his honor at the
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8 Saint-Denis, to offer care to students and people in the community. His 1951 work, ''Reality and Dream'', about his ethnopsychoanalysis of a Native American
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man, was adapted as a French film, ''Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian'' (2013), written and directed by
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. George Devereux is buried in the
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(CRIT) cemetery in Parker, Arizona. The land is the CRIT reservation.


Biography

He was born György Dobó in 1908, in
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, the
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, now in
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and then part of
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. His family was Hungarian Jewish and bourgeois. His father was a lawyer, and his mother of ethnic German Jewish background. Devereux had a rather difficult relationship with his mother. He said that the "insincerity of the adults", their "lack of respect for the world of the children" was a formative experience of his childhood and youth. His cousin was
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. As a youngster growing up in that imperial and cosmopolitan world, and later in France, Dobó learned and spoke four languages: Hungarian, Romanian, German, and French. He studied piano seriously as a youth but, after an unsuccessful operation to correct a problem with his hand, had to give up his dream of performing professionally. His older brother committed
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.


Education and early career in France

Following the breakup of Austria-Hungary after World War I, the Dobó family left Romania for France. as a youth, Georgy studied chemistry and physics with
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in Paris. He was looking for ‘objective truth’ in physics and 'subjective' truth in music. In his later writings, he often referred to notions taken from the natural sciences. He became ill and had to interrupt his studies. After recovering, Dobó moved to
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,
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, to begin an apprenticeship in a publishing house. He returned to Paris upon completion and, taking a new direction, he enrolled at the
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, known as INALCO, where he studied the
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, qualifying in 1931. He became a pupil of
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and
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in
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, graduating from the ''Institut d'ethnologie''."Devereux, Georges", in: Gérald Gaillard, ''The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists''
, Psychology Press, 2004, p. 181, accessed 21 August 2014
He also befriended
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. During this period, Dobó wrote a novel, ''Le faune dans l’enfer bourgeois'' he faun in the bourgeois hell which has not been published. From 1931 to 1935, Dobó worked at the Musee d'histoire naturelle (Natural History Museum) as a junior researcher. After completing his ''licence ès lettres'' (B.A.), he received a grant/scholarship in 1932 from the
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in New York to do fieldwork in the United States.


Work in the United States

He moved to the southwest, doing
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among the Mohave, Hopi, Yuma, and Cocopa in the California, Nevada and Arizona areas. His early days in the United States proved to be difficult. "Among the young American anthropologists with whom he collaborated during his preparative stage he encountered only distrust and contempt; when, being asked about his teachers, he mentioned the names Mauss,
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and Lévy-Bruhl, he said.” Devereux considered his time with the Mohave to have been the happiest of his life. This was the first of five periods when he lived with and studied them. He noted that they paid much attention to their dreams as a culture. He learned how they used interpretation to gain aid from their dreams. He said they "converted him to
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". In 1933 György Dobó converted to
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, and adopted the French name of Georges Devereux. As part of his anthropology work, he later traveled to
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to live among and study the Sedang Moi. Devereux completed his PhD in anthropology in 1936 at the
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, working under
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. Deeply interested in the use of dreams, Devereux decided to study
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, still a new field of study in the United States. He was analyzed by Marc Schlumberger and Robert Jokl. He completed his analytical training in 1952 at the Topeka Institute of Psychoanalysis in Kansas, now part of the
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. In the early 21st century, the Clinic moved to Houston and became affiliated with
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. From 1945 to 1953 Devereux was associated with the Winter Veterans Hospital in Topeka as ethnologist and research director. He treated and studied several Native Americans suffering from mental illness in this period, including Jimmy Picard, a
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whom he wrote about. He drew from his anthropology background to treat these men. From 1953 to 1955 Devereux worked in
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, Pennsylvania with children and teenagers at the Devereux School (no relation to him). In 1956 he was appointed as professor of ethnopsychiatry to the medical faculty of
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in that city. In 1959 he moved to New York City, where he taught ethnology at
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. In this period, Devereux was finally accepted as a member of the
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and also with the Société psychanalytique de Paris.


Return to France

On the initiative of noted anthropologist
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, who had introduced
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to the field, Devereux was invited in 1963 to teach at Section VI of the
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(EPHE) in Paris. Founded after World War II, the new section was devoted to Economic and Social Sciences. He became director of studies, and taught there until 1981. (Since 1975, this section spun off, founding the new
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(EHESS). His chief work in methodology, ''From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences'', was published in 1967. Devereux also worked with private patients, and wrote and published extensively. During the last years of his life, Devereux studied classical Greek history and culture. He published a book about the place of prophetic dreams in Greek
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.


Methodology

In ''From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences'', Devereux suggested rethinking the question of the relation between the observer and the observed. He based his concept on psychoanalysis. He believed that the researcher's goal to make his observations from a strictly objective point of view was impossible to practice and could be counterproductive. Instead the observer needed to be in the middle of the process and to keep in mind that whatever he observed was always influenced by his own activity of observing. He recognized that the only data to which the observer had access were his own perceptions, his reaction to reactions he provoked. According to Devereux, the observer must think about his relation to the observed in the same manner as an analyst would do in his relation to his analysand. The analyst works with the
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he triggers and with the
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he can perceive from the patient. In any study where the subject relates to the subjectivity of human beings (or even of animals), Devereux believed this process should be used. In addition to using his own experiences, Devereux closely studied
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' ''
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'' World on the Wane a classic work of his anthropology studies among indigenous peoples in Brazil; Georges Balandiers ''Afrique ambiguë'' mbiguous Africa: Cultures in Collision and Condominas' ''L'Exotique au quotidien''. He described these as " the only major attempts known to me to appraise the impact of his data and of his scientific activity upon the scientist". Devereux is considered among the group of French-speaking anthropologists who established new lines of research in the postwar period."Georges Devereux", Routledge, p. 292 Together with a former student, Tobie Nathan, he founded the journal, ''Ethnopsychiatrica'' in the 1970s.


Influence

According to George Gaillard, Devereux has been more influential in Europe than in North America in terms of ethnopsychiatry. Andrew and Harrit Lyons have assessed him as important in both France and the United States to those interested in psychoanalytic anthropology. Since the late 20th century, numerous American anthropologists have published studies that acknowledge and stress the subjectivity of researchers, noting they are in the middle and influence the work, as Devereux and Levi-Strauss noted. He also applied this insight to psychoanalysis. In France, Tobie Nathan and Marie Rose Moro continue Devereux's ethnopsychiatric work, especially in psychotherapy with immigrants. In Switzerland the second generation of the "Zurich School" of ethnopsychoanalysis, Mario Erdheim, Maya Nadig, Florence Weiss, etc., has been deeply influenced by Devereux's methodological approach.


Legacy

* Avicennes Hospital in France established the first clinic for ethnopsychiatry.Tobie Nathan, translated from the French by Catherine Grandsard, "Georges Devereux and Clinical Ethnopsychiatry"
n.d, Centre Georges Devereux, accessed 24 August 2014
*1993, the Centre George Devereux was founded in his honor at the University of Paris 8 Saint Denis, as part of the Psychology Department. It runs a clinic for ethnopsychiatry, aiding students as well as members of the community, including immigrants. *His book, ''Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian'' (1951), about his psychoanalytic work with a Blackfoot Indian in the United States, was adapted as a French film, ''
Jimmy P ''Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian'' is a 2013 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. ''Jimmy P.'' stars Benicio del Toro as title character Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot Native American who has returned to Montana from World W ...
: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian'' (2013), written and directed by
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, and starring
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as Jimmy Picard, and
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as Georges Devereux. It was nominated for numerous awards, including three Césars.


Writings (selection)

Devereux published more than 400 texts. Among them: * ''Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian'', New York: International Univ. Press, 1951 * ''A Study of Abortion in Primitive Societies; a typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 pre-industrial societies'', New York: Julian Press, 1955 * ''From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences'', The Hague tc.. Mouton, 1967 * ''Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: the psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe'', St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Scholarly Press, 1976 * ''Ethnopsychoanalysis: psychoanalysis and anthropology as complementary frames of reference'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978 * ''Basic problems of ethnopsychiatry'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980 * ''Dreams in Greek Tragedy: An Ethno-Psycho-Analytical Study'', University of California Press, 1976 * ''Les Femmes et les psychotiques dans les sociétés traditionelles'', (edited by Devereux), Paris 1981 * Femme et Mythe, Paris: Flammarion, 1982 * ''Baubo, la vulve mythique'', Paris: J.-C. Godefroy, 1983 * ''The character of the Euripidean Hippolytos: an ethno-psychoanalytical study'', Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1985. * ''Cléomène le roi fou. Etude d'histoire ethnopsychanalytique'', Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1998, * correspondence
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-George Devereux, in: ''Ethno-psychiatry'' (Emmanuel Delille ed.), Lyon, ENS Éditions, 2017. http://books.openedition.org/enseditions/7967


See also

*
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*
Henri Ellenberger Henri Frédéric Ellenberger (Nalolo, Barotseland, Rhodesia, 6 November 1905 – Quebec, 1 May 1993) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian, and criminologist, sometimes considered the founding historiographer of psychiatry. Ellenberger ...


References


Secondary literature

English
Gérald Gaillard, "Devereux, Georges" in: ''The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists''
, Psychology Press, 2004, pp. 181 and 292
Andrew P. Lyons, Harriet D. Lyons, ''Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality''
(Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology), Paperback Edition, University of Nebraska Press, 2005

n.d, Centre Georges Devereux *Simone Valentin, “Devereux, Georges (1908-1985)” in: ''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'', Detroit: Thomson Gale 2005, vol. 1, A-F, pp. 409–410. *Emmanuel Delille, "On the History of Cultural Psychiatry: Georges Devereux,
Henri Ellenberger Henri Frédéric Ellenberger (Nalolo, Barotseland, Rhodesia, 6 November 1905 – Quebec, 1 May 1993) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian, and criminologist, sometimes considered the founding historiographer of psychiatry. Ellenberger ...
, and the Psychological Treatment of Native Americans in the 1950s", ''Transcultural Psychiatry'', 53 (3), 2016, pp. 392–411 French * Marie-Christine Beck: "La jeunesse de Georges Devereux. Un chemin peu habituel vers la psychanalyse". In: ''Revue Internationale d'Histoire de la Psychanalyse'', 1991, 4, pp. 581–603 * Elisabeth Burgos, "Georges Devereux, Mohave": ''Le Coq Héron'', n°109, 1988, pp. 71–75 * Françoise Michel-Jones: "Georges Devereux et l'ethnologie française. Rencontre et malentendu", In: ''Nouvelle revue d'Ethnopsychiatrie'', 1986, n°6, pp. 81–94 * Simone Valantin-Charasson, Ariane Deluz: ''Contrefiliations et inspirations paradoxales. Georges Devereux (1908-1985)''. In: ''Revue Internationale d'Histoire de la Psychanalyse''. 1991, 4, pp. 605–617
Tobie Nathan, ''Devereux, un hébreu anarchiste''
préface à Georges Devereux, ''Ethnopsychiatrie des Indiens Mohaves'', Paris, Synthélabo, 1996. * Emmanuel Delille, "De la psychiatrie exotique aux réseaux universitaires de psychiatrie culturelle: pour une histoire de l’ethnopsychiatrie comme corpus de savoirs en période de transition (1945-1965)", in: H. Ellenberger, ''Ethno-psychiatrie'', Lyon, ENS Éditions, 2017, pp. 9–1115. German *Georges Devereux: 'Es gibt eine kulturell neutrale Psychotherapie. Gespräch mit Georges Devereux'. In: Hans Jürgen Heinrichs (hg.): ''Das Fremde verstehen. Gespräche über Alltag, Normalität und Anormalität''. Frankfurt, Paris: Qumran, 1982, pp. 15–32 * Ulrike Bokelmann: 'Georges Devereux'. In: Hans Peter Duerr: ''Die wilde Seele. Zur Ethnopsychoanalyse von Georges Devereux'', Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1987, pp. 9–31 * Klaus-Dieter Brauner: ''Kultur und Symptom. Über wissenschaftstheoretische und methodologische Grundlagen von George Devereux' Konzeption einer Ethnopsychoanalyse und Ethnopsychiatrie''. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York: Peter Lang, 1986 * Hans Peter Duerr (Hg.): ''Die wilde Seele. Zur Ethnopsychoanalyse von Georges Devereux''. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1987 *Johannes Reichmayr: ''Einführung in die Ethnopsychoanalyse. Geschichte, Theorien und Methoden''. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2001, – Revised new edition: Giesssen:Psychosozial-Verlag, 2003, * Ekkehard Schröder (Hg.): ''Georges Devereux zum 75. Geburtstag. Eine Festschrift'', Braunschweig tc. Vieweg, 1984


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