Freuds Patients - A Book of Lives

"In total, 38 lives tell us 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."--Inside book jacket

About the author

A philosopher by training, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, and a leading theorist and historian of psychoanalysis and psychiatry. A regular contributor to the London Review of Books, he is the author or co-author of some sixteen titles that have been translated into nine languages.

Summary

38 revealing portraits of the men and women who were treated by Sigmund Freud.

Product details

• Authors: Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Borch-Jacobsen Mikkel
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781789144550
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-455-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / General, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, history;psychology;jung;psychoanalysis;psychotherapy