32 Facts About George Devereux

George Devereux was born into a Jewish family in the Banat, Austria-Hungary .

George Devereux's family moved to France following World War I He studied the Malayan language in Paris, completing work at the Institut d'Ethnologie.

George Devereux treated Native Americans by drawing on his anthropology background.

George Devereux taught at several colleges in the United States, returning to Paris about 1962 at the invitation of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.

George Devereux was appointed as director of studies of Section VI at the noted Ecole pratique des hautes etudes in Paris, where he worked from 1963 to 1981.

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In 1993 the Centre George Devereux was founded in his honor at the University of Paris 8 Saint-Denis, to offer care to students and people in the community.

George Devereux is buried in the Colorado River Indian Tribes cemetery in Parker, Arizona.

George Devereux's father was a lawyer, and his mother of ethnic German Jewish background.

George Devereux said that the "insincerity of the adults", their "lack of respect for the world of the children" was a formative experience of his childhood and youth.

George Devereux studied piano seriously as a youth but, after an unsuccessful operation to correct a problem with his hand, had to give up his dream of performing professionally.

George Devereux was looking for 'objective truth' in physics and 'subjective' truth in music.

George Devereux returned to Paris upon completion and, taking a new direction, he enrolled at the Ecole des langues orientales, known as INALCO, where he studied the Malay language, qualifying in 1931.

George Devereux became a pupil of Marcel Mauss and Paul Rivet in anthropology, graduating from the Institut d'ethnologie.

George Devereux moved to the southwest, doing fieldwork among the Mohave, Hopi, Yuma, and Cocopa in the California, Nevada and Arizona areas.

George Devereux considered his time with the Mohave to have been the happiest of his life.

George Devereux noted that they paid much attention to their dreams as a culture.

George Devereux learned how they used interpretation to gain aid from their dreams.

George Devereux completed his PhD in anthropology in 1936 at the University of California-Berkeley, working under Alfred Kroeber.

Deeply interested in the use of dreams, George Devereux decided to study psychoanalysis, still a new field of study in the United States.

George Devereux completed his analytical training in 1952 at the Topeka Institute of Psychoanalysis in Kansas, now part of the Menninger Clinic.

From 1945 to 1953 George Devereux was associated with the Winter Veterans Hospital in Topeka as ethnologist and research director.

George Devereux treated and studied several Native Americans suffering from mental illness in this period, including Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot whom he wrote about.

George Devereux drew from his anthropology background to treat these men.

From 1953 to 1955 George Devereux worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with children and teenagers at the George Devereux School .

George Devereux became director of studies, and taught there until 1981.

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George Devereux worked with private patients, and wrote and published extensively.

George Devereux published a book about the place of prophetic dreams in Greek tragedies.

In From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences, George Devereux suggested rethinking the question of the relation between the observer and the observed.

George Devereux believed that the researcher's goal to make his observations from a strictly objective point of view was impossible to practice and could be counterproductive.

George Devereux recognized that the only data to which the observer had access were his own perceptions, his reaction to reactions he provoked.

George Devereux described these as "[…] the only major attempts known to me to appraise the impact of his data and of his scientific activity upon the scientist".

George Devereux is considered among the group of French-speaking anthropologists who established new lines of research in the postwar period.