Angela Graf-Nold, Ph.D. is an historian of psychology and a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Zürich, Switzerland.
She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Zürich where she studied the history of psychology and psychotherapy. Her doctoral dissertation was a biography of the first Freudian child analyst. It was published in German in 1988 under the title The Case of Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: A History of Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Graf-Nold spent four years as a research fellow at the University of Zürich’s Department of Psychopathology of Children and Adolescents where she focused on the role of women in the development of psychotherapy for children. She then went on to practice as a clinical psychotherapist in Konstanz, Germany under the Professional Association of German Psychologists (BDP). During that period, she spent two years at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Zürich, known as the Burghölzli Clinic, studying epidemiology and archival science.
From 2004-2010 she worked as a research scholar for the Philemon Foundation at the Museum of the History of Medicine at the University of Zürich where she transcribed the lecture course delivered by C.G. Jung at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (known as the ETH) where Jung was appointed a professor in 1935.
Dr. Graf-Nold is the author of several book chapters and articles, most recently “The Zürich School of Psychiatry in Theory & Practice: Sabina Spielrein’s Treatment at the Burghölzli Clinic in Zürich” included in the book, Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, and “Switzerland’s ‘Intimate Tragedy’ – Jung’s ‘Basic Roughness’: Count Keyserling’s Encounter with Jung & Switzerland” in the book, Europe’s Many Souls: Exploring Cultural Complexes & Identities.
In a Postlude to the 2011 Zürich Lecture Series at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP Zürich), she co-presented the 4-part lecture, “Jung’s Association Experiment and the Psychogalvanic Phenomena: Historical Context, Demonstration, Clinical Narratives & Applications.” The following year she co-presented “A Demonstration: The Psychogalvanomic Phenomena with a Reassembly of Some of the Equipment Used by Jung” along with Franz Böttcher at the 2012 AGAP Forum: Psyche & Time.
From 2013-2018, Dr. Graf-Nold was a lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich where she presented “C.G. Jung’s Association Experiments with the Galvanometer: A turning point in psychological science and in his own intellectual history,” and it is the subject of our talk today.
This interview was recorded on Monday, March 1, 2021. It’s 01:14:13 long and 66 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and on Amazon Music. And it’s now available on our YouTube channel (includes photos and images).
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SHOW NOTES
Modern Psychology: C.G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Full details from the Philemon Foundation
The Case of Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: A History of Early Child Psychoanalysis by Angela Graf-Nold; German edition available from amazon.com
Der Fall Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: Eine Geschichte der frühen Kinder-Psychoanalyse by Angela Graf-Nold; German edition available from amazon.de
“The Zürich School of Psychiatry in Theory & Practice: Sabina Spielrein’s Treatment at the Burghölzli Clinic in Zürich” by Angela Graf-Nold, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2001, Vol. 46: 1, pp. 73-104 {also available at Academia and Research Gate}
Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis Edited by Coline Covington & Barbara Wharton {includes “The Zürich School of Psychiatry in Theory & Practice: Sabina Spielrein’s Treatment at the Burghölzli Clinic in Zürich” by Angela Graf-Nold}
A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein Between Jung & Freud – The Untold Story of the Woman Who Changed the Early History of Psychoanalysis by Aldo Carotenuto, Ph.D., Jungian analyst {includes the letters found in the basement in Geneva}
A Dangerous Method A film by David Cronenberg
A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, & Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr, M.D.
A Dangerous Method: The Dangers of Boundaries in Psychotherapy Video presentation for the Asheville Jung Center by Angela Graf-Nold, Murray Stein, and Jan Weiner {available for purchase}
C.G. Jung: Word & Image Edited by Aniela Jaffé, Jungian analyst {includes photos and history of the Burghölzli, Bleuler and Jung’s association test}
Photo of Jung’s galvanic apparatus Courtesy of Angela Graf-Nold
Freud Binswanger Correspondence by Gerhard Fichtner
Hypnotism or Suggestion & Psychotherapy: A Study of the Psychological, Psychophysiological & Therapeutic Aspects of Hypnotism by August Forel & H.W. Armit
The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete & Definitive Text by Sigmund Freud
From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Many Languages by Théodore Flournoy, edited and introduced by Sonu Shamdasani with a Foreword by C.G. Jung
The “Golden Age” of Synesthesia Inquiry in the Late Nineteenth Century by Jörg Jewanski, Julia Simner, Sean A. Day, Nicolas Rothen, & Jamie Ward, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences: Basic & Clinical Perspectives, Volume 29 (2020), Issue 2 {link is to the full article from Taylor & Francis Online}
Psychology & the Occult Extracts from The Collected Works of C.G. Jung {includes Jung’s doctoral dissertation about his cousin Hélène “Helly” Preiswerk, “On the Psychology & Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena”}
Psychiatric Studies Vol. 1 of The Collected Works of C.G. Jung {includes his essay, “Cryptomnesia”}
Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925 by C.G. Jung
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard
ADDITIONAL LINKS
Europe’s Many Souls: Exploring Cultural Complexes & Identities Edited by Joerg Rasche & Thomas Singer; includes “Switzerland’s ‘Intimate Tragedy’ – Jung’s ‘Basic Roughness’: Count Keyserling’s Encounter with Jung & Switzerland” by Angela Graf-Nold
Die Seherin von Genf by Théodore Flournoy; German edition available from amazon.com