Analyst - A Daughter''s Memoir

The Analyst is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her father's intense private life and explores how his life and work illuminate the broader reaches of Freudian ideas in the United States.

List of contents

Prologue
1. On the Road to Topeka
2. Out of Brooklyn
3. Becoming Freudian
4. The Slap, Explained
5. Ex-Topekan
6. Losing the Road Map
7. Freudian Fathers and (Proto-) Feminist Daughters
8. Revelations
9. The Big Freedom
10. (A) Challenging Fate
11. Workshops of the Possible
12. Making Friends, Making Love
13. Retelling Lives
14. Life Underwater
15. The Old Leaf
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Sayings of Milton Wexler
Published Papers and Reviews by Milton Wexler
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index

About the author

Alice Wexler is the author of a two-volume biography of Emma Goldman as well as Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research (1995) and The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington’s and the Making of a Genetic Disease (2008). She is a former Guggenheim fellow and is active on the board of the Hereditary Disease Foundation.

Summary

The Analyst is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her father’s intense private life and explores how his life and work illuminate the broader reaches of Freudian ideas in the United States.

Additional text

In this memoir of her father, one of LA’s most prominent analysts, the historian Alice Wexler gives us a revealing and vivid portrait of a time when psychotherapy loomed so large in America. Poignant, engrossing, and very smart!

Product details

• Authors: Alice Wexler, Wexler Alice
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780231202787
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20278-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia, PSYCHOLOGY / History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients), biography & autobiography; Milton Wexler