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Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives by Borch-Jacobsen
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- ISBN
- 9781789144550
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Freud's Patients : a Book of Lives
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, The Limited
- Genre
- Psychology, History
- Topic
- Movements / Psychoanalysis, General
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Everyone knows the characters described by Freud in his case histories: 'Dora', the 'Rat Man', the 'Wolf Man'. But what do we know of the people, the lives behind these famous pseudonyms: Ida Bauer, Ernst Lanzer, Sergius Pankejeff? Do we know the circumstances that led them to Freud's consulting-room, or how they fared - how they really fared - following their treatments? And what of those patients about whom Freud wrote nothing, or very little: Pauline Silberstein, who threw herself from the fourth floor of her analyst's building; Elfriede Hirschfeld, Freud's 'grand-patient' and 'chief tormentor'; the fashionable architect Karl Mayreder; the psychotic millionaire Carl Liebmann; and so many others? In an absorbing sequence of portraits, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen offers the stories of these men and women -- some comic, many tragic, all of them deeply moving. In total, thirty-eight lives tell us as much about Freud's clinical practice as his celebrated case studies, revealing too a darker and more complex Freud than is usually portrayed: the doctor as his patients, their friends and their families saw him.
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Publisher
Reaktion Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1789144558
ISBN-13
9781789144550
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13050386090
Product Key Features
Book Title
Freud's Patients : a Book of Lives
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Psychology, History
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.2in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bf109.F74
Reviews
Time has not been kind to Freud. The list of writers, books, and articles picking apart his psychoanalytic theories is a long one. Borch-Jacobsen's Freud's Patients is part of this critical wave, but Borch-Jacobsen attacks the subject from a unique angle. The book is made up of thirty-eight vignettes recounting the lives and analyses of Freud's patients, and, where sufficient biographical information exists, the hidden reality behind Freud's published accounts. As this absolutely thrilling volume makes clear, Freud's successes were often illusory., This well-documented book will be instructive for scholars and general readers interested in separating historical fact from psychoanalytic mythology. It is essential reading for practitioners who may be contemplating training in clinical psychoanalysis. . . . Highly recommended., Freud's Patients features thirty-eight historical portraits, but the picture which emerges is a strikingly true-to-life one of Freud himself, drawn by his subjects, their friends and families, and framed in this beautifully presented collection. Freud's case histories have been compared to fiction from the beginning--not least by their author himself. Freud's Patients separates the fact from the fiction with stunning and sobering effect and makes this book a must-read for anyone who wants to know the truth about these cases. It is a landmark publication which reveals the truth so often obscured in the case histories. The result is a riveting read which is not just better informed but much more interesting than Freud's fiction. You couldn't make it up!, Borch-Jacobsen has sifted through the archives to discover the real stories anonymized in the case studies on which Sigmund Freud based his theories, and the lives of the patients who submitted to analysis on the great man's original couch. What he discovered is startling. Borch-Jacobsen tells... how Freud falsified the data to fit his theories, kept incurable cases coming back week after week to keep the fees rolling in--and how the global industry of Freudian analysis resembles a religious cult more than a science., Freud's Patients brings new scrutiny to the methods used by Freud with the patients he treated, including his own daughter, Anna. Not least, the book illustrates through the fates of those under Freud's care that his treatments may not only have been ineffective, but at times utterly destructive. Borch-Jacobsen, one of the world's great Freud scholars, has done a masterful job in allowing readers to peek behind the curtain and sample the real lives of these illustrious patients., I love a book that tells me something I don't know. Borch-Jacobsen's Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives --which digs up all that can be dug on the people who were personally treated by Freud--did that. I knew Freud's reputation was on the slide, but this pushes it right into the drink. Borch-Jacobsen shows how Freud sometimes outright falsified his results to fit his theories; and kept even hopeless cases on the couch as long as the fees rolled in. Scoundrel!
Copyright Date
2021
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
150.19520922
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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