Lay Analyst Elida Evans in the 1920s United States A Story Never Told

This is the first biography of Elida Evans, a New York Jungian-trained analyst who published four writings between 1916 and 1926. Two of them are psychosomatic articles, written together with Smith Ely Jelliffe. She also wrote two books, one on child psychology in 1920 and another on the psychology of cancer in 1926. Since Evans did not have a medical degree, she fought the American question of lay analysis even before Theodor Reik. Despite this, her book A Psychological Study of Cancer was the first monography about the psychology of cancer patients and the foundation of psycho-oncology.