George Devereux was famous for his work on ethnopsychoanalysis and ethnopsychiatry. He spoke Hungarian, Romanian, German and French and studied Chemistry and Physics in Paris with Marie Curie after the suicide of his brother. He looked for an 'objective truth' in physics and a 'subjective truth' in music. A promising early career as a pianist was cut short after an unsuccessful operation

George Devereux has written:

'A study of abortion in primitive societies' -- subject(s): Birth control, Primitive societies, Abortion, Psychoanalysis

'Ethnopsychoanalysis' -- subject(s): Psychoanalysis and anthropology, Ethnopsychology, Personality and culture, Psychoanalysis and culture

'Therapeutic education: its theoretical bases and practice' -- subject(s): Psychotherapy, Child study

'The character of the Euripidean Hippolytos' -- subject(s): Sex in literature, Hippolytus (Greek mythology) in literature, Tragedy, Psychoanalysis and literature

'Baubo, la vulve mythique' -- subject(s): Sex symbolism, Vulva, Sex

'Mojave Ethnopsychiatry'

'Reality and dream' -- subject(s): Psychology, Indians of North America, Psychiatry, Case studies, Cases, clinical reports, statistics, Psychotherapy

'Dreams in Greek tragedy' -- subject(s): Drama, Dreams in literature, Greek drama (Tragedy), History and criticism, Mythology, Greek, in literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Drama

'Basic problems of ethnopsychiatry' -- subject(s): Addresses, essays, lectures, Cultural psychiatry, Psychiatry, Transcultural, Transcultural Psychiatry

'Mohave ethnopsychiatry' -- subject(s): Mohave Indians, Medicine, Suicidal behavior, Psychology