George Devereux

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

George Devereux is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Anthropology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, George Devereux has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Clinical Psychology, 7 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in George Devereux's work include Classical Antiquity Studies (5 papers), Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 papers) and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 papers). George Devereux is often cited by papers focused on Classical Antiquity Studies (5 papers), Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 papers) and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 papers). George Devereux collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. George Devereux's co-authors include Weston La Barre, Douglass Price‐Williams, Caroline Neubaur, A. L. Epstein, Mary R. Lefkowitz, Nils Thomas Lindquist, William A. Lessa and Alan Henry and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

George Devereux

51 papers receiving 994 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences

1967 358 citations George Devereux profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Devereux United States	17	496	390	258	167	166	60	1.4k
Gananath Obeyesekere United States	25	753 1.5×	219 0.6×	245 0.9×	216 1.3×	131 0.8×	74	1.9k
Robert J. Stoller United States	28	527 1.1×	984 2.5×	827 3.2×	98 0.6×	92 0.6×	87	2.5k
Jerome Neu United States	8	398 0.8×	155 0.4×	462 1.8×	109 0.7×	88 0.5×	29	1.3k
J. Louise Despert United States	8	592 1.2×	273 0.7×	89 0.3×	60 0.4×	108 0.7×	11	1.4k
William D. Wilder United Kingdom	9	428 0.9×	193 0.5×	137 0.5×	65 0.4×	131 0.8×	26	1.1k
Douglass Price‐Williams United States	19	168 0.3×	182 0.5×	301 1.2×	55 0.3×	70 0.4×	50	1.1k
Robert A. Nye United States	20	475 1.0×	313 0.8×	84 0.3×	142 0.9×	67 0.4×	60	1.4k
George H. Pollock United States	21	245 0.5×	985 2.5×	296 1.1×	211 1.3×	67 0.4×	93	1.6k
Rollo May United States	13	237 0.5×	714 1.8×	515 2.0×	205 1.2×	123 0.7×	51	1.5k
Donald Capps United States	21	773 1.6×	527 1.4×	385 1.5×	364 2.2×	76 0.5×	177	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by George Devereux

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of George Devereux's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by George Devereux with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites George Devereux more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by George Devereux

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by George Devereux. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by George Devereux. The network helps show where George Devereux may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Devereux

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of George Devereux. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of George Devereux based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with George Devereux. George Devereux is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Devereux, George, et al.. (1998). Psychothérapie d'un Indien des plaines : réalité et rêve. Fayard eBooks. 4 indexed citations

2.

Devereux, George. (1987). Thamyris and the Muses. The American Journal of Philology. 108(2). 199–199. 1 indexed citations

3.

Devereux, George. (1982). Femme et mythe. Flammarion eBooks. 6 indexed citations

4.

Devereux, George. (1978). Ethnopsychoanalyse : die komplementaristische Methode in den Wissenschaften vom Menschen. Suhrkamp eBooks. 4 indexed citations

5.

Devereux, George. (1977). Essais d'ethnopsychiatrie générale. Gallimard eBooks. 65 indexed citations

6.

Lefkowitz, Mary R. & George Devereux. (1977). Dreams in Greek Tragedy. The American Journal of Philology. 98(3). 305–305. 8 indexed citations

7.

Devereux, George. (1976). Dreams in Greek tragedy : an ethno-psycho-analytical study. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 24 indexed citations

8.

Devereux, George. (1968). Orthopraxis. Psychiatric Quarterly. 42(4). 726–737. 2 indexed citations

9.

Devereux, George. (1967). From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences. 358 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Devereux, George, et al.. (1967). Angst und Methode in den Verhaltenswissenschaften. Suhrkamp eBooks. 90 indexed citations

11.

Devereux, George. (1965). The Voices of Children. American Journal of Psychotherapy. 19(1). 4–19. 5 indexed citations

12.

Devereux, George. (1964). 221. An Ethnopsychiatric Note on Property-Destruction in Cargo Cults. Man. 64. 184–184.

13.

Devereux, George. (1956). Therapeutic education : its theoretical bases and practice. 2 indexed citations

14.

Devereux, George. (1956). PSYCHOETHNOGRAPHY. Culture and Mental Disorders: A Comparative Study of the Hutterites and Other Populations. Joseph W. Eaton and Robert J. Weil. Glencoe. American Anthropologist. 58(1). 211–212. 10 indexed citations

15.

Devereux, George. (1955). Acting Out in Dreams. American Journal of Psychotherapy. 9(4). 657–660.

16.

Devereux, George. (1953). Why Oedipus killed Laius; a note on the complementary Oedipus complex in Greek drama.. PubMed. 34(2). 132–41. 47 indexed citations

17.

Devereux, George. (1953). Cultural Factors in Psychoanalytic Therapy. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 1(4). 629–655. 28 indexed citations

18.

Devereux, George. (1951). Logical Status and Methodological Problems of Research in Clinical Psychiatry^†. Psychiatry. 14(3). 327–330. 3 indexed citations

19.

Devereux, George. (1951). Three Technical Problems in the Psychotherapy of Plains Indian Patients. American Journal of Psychotherapy. 5(3). 411–423. 10 indexed citations

20.

Devereux, George. (1951). Cultural and Characterological Traits of the Mohave Related to the Anal Stage of Psychosexual Development. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 20(3). 398–422. 6 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact