Family Romance, Family Secrets: Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis, 1912

by Bennett Simon and Elizabeth Lunbeck

This fascinating book, which presents an early psychoanalyst's session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest, offers a vivid portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the second decade of the twentieth century. Accompanying these notes are insightful commentaries by Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon that situate the case historically and throw light on the many difficulties that both analyst and patient encountered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0073TDXK0
• ISBN13: 9780300092141
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"