David Eder ( Montague ) David Eder ( 1865 – 1936 ) was a British psychoanalyst , physician , Zionist and writer . He was best known for advancing psychoanalytic studies in Great Britain . Education and medical training . Eder studied medicine at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital in London . Following the completion of his studies , he travelled through the United States , South Africa and Bolivia , where became a non - commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army . Eder returned to London in 1900 and went into general practice . His interest in paediatric medicine led to his appointment as Medical Officer of the London School Clinic in 1908 and of the Nursery School at Deptford in 1910 . He was also the editor of the medical journal " School Hygiene " . In the First World War , Eder joined the British Army , serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps , as a temporary captain , he was appointed medical officer in charge of the psycho - neurological department in Malta . He would later recall the physical and mental injuries suffered by the frontline troops in his 1917 book " War - Shock , The Psycho - neuroses in War : Psychology and Treatment . " Psychoanalysis . During the early 1910s , Eder became interested in the psychoanalytical theories emerging from Europe . Writing as M . D . Eder , he provided English - language translation for works by Carl Jung ( " Diagnostic Association Studies " and " The Theory of Psychoanalysis " ) and Sigmund Freud ( " Dream Psychology : Psychoanalysis for Beginners " and " On Dreams " ) . Eder would later prefer the Freudian approach to the Jungian approach . Eder also authored original articles on psychoanalysis . His influence stretched beyond medical circles : the novelist D . H . Lawrence alluded to Eder ’ s pamphlet " The State Endowment of Motherhood " in the book " The White Peacock . " Major studies . In 1932 he was elected president of the medical section of the British Psychological Society . That year , he presented his 1932 study " The Management of the Nervous Patient " , first presented at the London Jewish Hospital Medical Society , called for the combination of psychoanalysis into the process of medical diagnosis . “ ' When this is not feasible , ” he said , “ the physician ' s intelligence … must be employed to guide his patient to a measure of mental wholeness . ” Also in 1932 , Eder presented his concept of the Myth of Progress . Writing in the " British Journal of Medical Psychology " , Eder argued that while civilization is moving forward due to advances in science , politics and technology , these advances are actually contributing to greater unhappiness as man perceived to lose control over his environment . Politics . Outside of his medical work , Eder was active in Britain ’ s Socialist politics and was involved in the Fabian Society , the leading British socialist organisation . As a supporter of the Zionist cause , Eder served as the Zionist Executive in Palestine from 1921 to 1927 , and was later president of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain . Eder was opposed to dividing Palestine into two states , and was quoted as saying : “ There can be only one national home in Palestine , and that a Jewish one , and no equality in the partnership between Jews and Arabs . "