Cassandra's daughter : a history of psychoanalysis

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Title:

Cassandra's daughter : a history of psychoanalysis

Author:

Schwartz, Joseph, 1938-

ISBN:

9780140298598

Personal Author:

Schwartz, Joseph, 1938-

Publication Information:

New York : Penguin Books, 2001.

Physical Description:

339 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1999.

Contents:

Boundaries -- Freud -- Hysteria and the origins of the analytic hour -- First theories -- First splits -- The transference -- Expanding the frontier: psychoanalysis in the United States I -- New theory, new splits: psychoanalysis in the United States II -- Child psychoanalysis: beginnings of a new paradigm -- Breakthrough in Britain -- Transmuting collision: psychoanalysis, feminism and the sixties -- Futures.

Subject Term:

Psychoanalysis -- History.

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Summary

Psychoanalysis is arguably the single most important intellectual development of the 20th century. It shares boundaries with literature, psychiatry, and academic psychology, yet it is the only discipline that strives to understand the inner world of human subjective experience. Terms that arose out of Freud's seminal work on the theory of human unconscious motivation, such as neurotic, ego, libido, paranoid, and psyche, are now so commonplace that we use them in everyday conversation. This is the first complete history of psychoanalysis, from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the present day -- that is, from the couch to Prozac. Whether you are pro- or anti-Freud, you will find this a learned, revelatory, original -- and humane -- book.