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Freud was addicted to cocaine and nicotine, Jung was psychotic for years, and Margaret Mead remained closeted throughout her lifetime. This book includes fifteen wounded healers whose own struggles enabled them to show us the immensity and richness of our unconscious minds and reshaped the modern world.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: 1. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar: Sigmund Freud's addiction problems; 2. The most dangerous method: entanglements between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud; 3. Cain and Abel are among us: Alfred W. Adler's path toward 'individual psychology'; 4. Fear of death and trauma of birth: Otto Rank's tragic saga; 5. From character analysis to cloud busting: Wilhelm Reich the lonely prophet; 6. Ernest Jones: Sigmund Freud's wizard; 7. Estranged brilliance: Melanie Klein's legacy; 8. When Freud found Tiffany: birth of child psychoanalysis; 9. Phoenix rising from the ashes: Viktor Frankl and the origin of logotherapy; Part II. From Sea to Shining Sea: 10. Rose garden revisited: miracles of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Joanne Greenberg; 11. The 'queer' genius that shaped American psychiatry: who is Harry Stack Sullivan?; 12. Anthropologists in a daughter's eye: the amazing coming together of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; 13. Gandhi is Gandhi, Luther is Luther: how did Erik the Vagabond become Erikson the Guru?; 14. 'My voice will go with you': how Milton Erickson salvaged hypnosis; 15. 'Where are your consciousness, emotion and free will?': William James, father of American psychology; Conclusion.
About the author
Keh-Ming Lin is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has published 250 papers and eleven books, including translations of books by Sigmund Freud, and is co-editor of Ethno-psychopharmacology (with Chee H. Ng, Bruce S. Singh, Edmond Y. K. Chiu, Cambridge, 2008).
Summary
Freud was addicted to cocaine and nicotine, Jung was psychotic for years, and Margaret Mead remained closeted throughout her lifetime. This book includes fifteen wounded healers whose own struggles enabled them to show us the immensity and richness of our unconscious minds and reshaped the modern world.
