The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings

by Janet Malcolm

Book Overview

The Purloined Clinic is a retrospective of essays, reviews, and reports that reflect the range and depth of Janet Malcolm's engagement with psychology, criticism, art, and literature. She examines aspects of "that absurdist collaboration," the psychoanalytic dialogue, from which come "small, stray sell recognitions that no other human relationship yields, brought forward under conditions...that no other human relationship could survive." She addresses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679412328
• ISBN13: 9780679412328
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.5"