Professor Sonu Shamdasani

Professor Sonu Shamdasani works on the history of psychiatry, psychology and the human sciences, in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. He has edited several books and is the author of Cult Fictions: C.G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology (Routledge, 1998), Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Jung Stripped Bare by his Biographers, Even (Karnac, 2005), and (with Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen) Le Dossier Freud: Enquête sur l’Histoire de la Psychanalyse (Le Seuil, 2006).

s.shamdasani@ucl.ac.uk

Formation of Modern Psychological Disciplines
My research continues to follow two intersecting verticies: the reconstruction of the formation of modern psychological disciplines and therapeutics from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, and a reconstruction of the formation of work of Jung, based on primary archival materials. The first volume of my intellectual history of Jung, Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science was published in 2003, and I have been continuing to work on the second volume. I have been overseeing a project to edit Jung’s unpublished manuscripts (www.philemonfoundation.org) and have been editing his hitherto unpublished work entitled The Red Book, which is a work of psychology composed in a literary form and illustrated with paintings, upon which he worked between 1914 and 1930. At the same time, I have been expanding my work on turn of the century psychotherapy, conceptions of mental influence and the genealogy of the concept of the placebo effect.

Profile

1984	BA, Bristol University
1994	MSc, History of Science and Medicine, University College London/Imperial College
1996	PhD in History of Medicine WIHM/UCL
1996	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, 1996-1999,WIHM/UCL
1999	Research Associate, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
2000-2	Consulting Faculty Member, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, USA
2003	Distinguished Consulting Faculty Member, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco
2006	Reader, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
2009	Professorship, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

Select Publications

Books

(With Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen) Le Dossier Freud. Enquête sur l’histoire de la psychanalyse (Paris: Les emp cheurs de penser en rond/Le Seuil, 2006).

Jung Stripped Bare by his Biographers, Even (London: Karnac Books, 2004).

Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Cult Fictions: C. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology (London: Routledge, 1998).

Edited Volumes

Editor, C. G. Jung, Seminar series, The psychology of Kundalini Yoga, Bollingen Series, Princeton (New Jersey/London: Princeton University Press/Routledge, 1996).

Editor, Michael Fordham's Analyst-Patient Interaction: Collected Papers on Technique (London: Routledge, 1996).

Editor, From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages by Théodore Flournoy (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994).

Editor (with Michael Münchow), Speculations after Freud, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Culture (London: Routledge, 1994).

Articles from 1997 listed on www.ucl.ac.uk/research/publications

List of earlier articles available on request.