The Helios Biblios Hour : THE ALIENISTS

Etymology. Alienist from French aliéniste; (from aliéné, meaning 'insane'), from Latin alienatus; (from alienare, meaning 'to estrange', from alienus).a psychiatrist who assesses the competence of a defendant in a court of law.tis an archaic term for a psychiatrist or psychologist. ... Although currently not often used in common parlance, the term "alienist" is still employed in psychiatric hospitals to describe those mental health professionals who evaluate defendants to determine their competency to stand trial.the contents of schizophrenic psychoses, I was considerably helped by Freud’s book on dream interpretation, which had just appeared (1900). [Here Jung is referring to Freud's revolutionary The Interpretation of ] By 1905.the population of New York City grew almost exponentially, and immigrants and wealthy arrivistes from the Midwest began challenging the dominance of the old New York Establishment The Four Hundred in The New York Times, there was significant backlash, both against the idea of a definitive list of "acceptable society" and McAllister himself.The New York World  was a newpaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931. It was a leading national voice of the democratic party