Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers

by Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester, John Forrester

Book Overview

As a writer, Sigmund Freud has affected powerful views on women. No one has been so vilified, both for his theories of the feminine, and for his alleged elevation of personal prejudice to the level of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465025633
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

An exhaustive, in-depth look at the women involved

Collaboratively written by Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester, Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers is an exhaustive, in-depth look at the women involved in the life and work of Sigmund Freud, who is often thought of as the father of modern psychology. Freud's many female patients, followers, and family members are surveyed and discussed in an informative blend of biography, history, and study of the founding of psychoanalysis. An exhaustively researched and detailed book, Freud's Women is very highly recommended for the History of Psychoanalysis academic reference collections, and Freudian Psychology supplement reading lists.