Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions

by John Forrester and John Forrester

Book Overview

In this challenging collection of essays, the noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester delves into the disputes over Freud's dead body. With wit and erudition, he tackles questions central to our psychoanalytic century's ways of thinking and living, including the following: Can one speak of a morality of the psychoanalytic life? Are the lives of both analysts and patients doomed to repeat the incestuous patterns they uncover? What...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674539613
• ISBN13: 9780674539617
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"