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Psychoanalysts including Freud

A group photograph showing Freud among a large gathering of psychoanalysts, held by the Wellcome Collection.

Freud appears among the psychoanalysts pictured in this group photograph of the movement he founded.

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Black and white group photograph of about forty men in dark suits and hats, arranged in rows on steps in front of a stone archway with a doorway and ivy on the building walls.
Psychoanalysts including Sigmund Freud. Photograph, Wellcome Collection.

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This black-and-white photograph shows a large group of men in dark suits and hats, arranged on steps in front of a stone archway. According to the record, Sigmund Freud is among the psychoanalysts pictured. The photograph is held by the Wellcome Collection, but no date is given.

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Group photographs like this record the community of psychoanalysts who gathered around Freud's ideas, showing that psychoanalysis grew into an organised movement with many followers, not just the work of one man.

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