Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud's Case of Dora

by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and James C. Coyne

Book Overview

The authors take a revolutionary look at the most famous of Sigmund Freud's cases and make significant connections between Dora and therapeutic relationships in the 1990s. In their careful examination of the case history, Lakoff and Coyne demonstrate that while much of Freud's method has changed, the basic relationship between therapist and client, their power relations, and the consequences thereof, remain intrinsically unaltered. The authors raise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807762679
• ISBN13: 9780807762677
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 151 Pages