The herd instinct

摘要

Astonishing though it may seem, the ideas of Freud were largely introduced into Britain by a head and neck surgeon, Wilfred Trotter. A man of famed erudition, wit, and clinical skill, he attended the first international congress of psychoanalysis in Salzburg a century ago, in 1908, two years after his appointment to the surgical staff of University College Hospital, London.