Sigmund Freud: His Life and Mind

by Helen W. Puner

Book Overview

Freud's development of psychoanalysis is one of the great fault lines of twentieth-century cultural history. The field as such provides one of the great professional dramas of our time: a classic struggle between a new, vital idea and the ignorance, prejudice, and refusal that so often attend major breakthroughs and innovations.Helen Puner's biography, long unavailable, is far more than a professional appreciation. It is the story of a complex, by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560006110
• ISBN13: 9781560006114
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"