Allen Esterson

757 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 442 citations indexed

About

Allen Esterson is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, General Psychology and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Allen Esterson has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 442 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Clinical Psychology, 4 papers in General Psychology and 3 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Allen Esterson's work include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 papers), Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 papers). Allen Esterson is often cited by papers focused on Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 papers), Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 papers). Allen Esterson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Allen Esterson's co-authors include Roz Laing and David C. Cassidy and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Sociology, SAGE Open and History of the Human Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Allen Esterson

11 papers receiving 309 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Sanity, Madness and the Family

1965 340 citations Roz Laing, Allen Esterson et al. British Journal of Sociology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Allen Esterson United Kingdom	6	245	103	87	79	59	11	442
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis	8	332 1.4×	70 0.7×	130 1.5×	63 0.8×	23 0.4×	18	542
Justin Simon United States	11	252 1.0×	47 0.5×	99 1.1×	94 1.2×	34 0.6×	30	417
Otto Fenichel	5	276 1.1×	54 0.5×	70 0.8×	81 1.0×	42 0.7×	9	407
Clarence G. Schulz United States	11	474 1.9×	98 1.0×	73 0.8×	145 1.8×	34 0.6×	26	657
Ludwig Binswanger	13	278 1.1×	201 2.0×	55 0.6×	87 1.1×	73 1.2×	35	532
K. R. Eissler United States	12	327 1.3×	87 0.8×	51 0.6×	80 1.0×	41 0.7×	41	592
André Green France	16	730 3.0×	116 1.1×	198 2.3×	105 1.3×	32 0.5×	75	905
Nanette C. Auerhahn United States	9	289 1.2×	58 0.6×	92 1.1×	114 1.4×	17 0.3×	23	418
Roger Frie Canada	12	235 1.0×	92 0.9×	73 0.8×	109 1.4×	11 0.2×	56	396
Charles Rycroft United States	7	215 0.9×	51 0.5×	34 0.4×	54 0.7×	14 0.2×	23	390

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allen Esterson

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All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

1.

Esterson, Allen & David C. Cassidy. (2019). Einstein's Wife. The MIT Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

2.

Esterson, Allen. (2013). Desmond and Moore’s Darwin’s Sacred Cause. SAGE Open. 3(2). 2 indexed citations

3.

Esterson, Allen. (2002). The myth of Freud's ostracism by the medical community in 1896-1905: Jeffrey Masson's assault on truth.. History of Psychology. 5(2). 115–134. 10 indexed citations

4.

Esterson, Allen. (2002). Misconceptions about Freud's seduction theory: Comment on Gleaves and Hernandez (1999).. History of Psychology. 5(1). 85–91. 5 indexed citations

5.

Esterson, Allen. (2001). The mythologizing of psychoanalytic history: deception and self-deception in Freud's accounts of the seduction theory episode. History of Psychiatry. 12(47). 329–352. 14 indexed citations

6.

Esterson, Allen. (2001). Recovered memories of sexual abuse. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. 18(4). 143–143. 2 indexed citations

7.

Esterson, Allen. (1998). Jeffrey Masson and Freud's seduction theory: a new fable based on old myths. History of the Human Sciences. 11(1). 1–21. 15 indexed citations

8.

Esterson, Allen. (1996). Grünbaum's Tally Argument. History of the Human Sciences. 9(1). 43–57. 5 indexed citations

9.

Esterson, Allen. (1993). Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud. 41 indexed citations

10.

Laing, Roz, et al.. (1965). Sanity, Madness and the Family. British Journal of Sociology. 16(3). 277–277. 340 indexed citations breakdown →

11.

Esterson, Allen, et al.. (1958). THE COLLUSIVE FUNCTION OF PAIRING IN ANALYTIC GROUPS. British Journal of Medical Psychology. 31(2). 117–123. 5 indexed citations

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