The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in America: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985

by Nathan G. Hale Jr.

Although Freud made only one visit to the United States, the spectacular rise and equally precipitous decline of his theories on human behavior continue to make headlines. In 1956, celebrating the centennial of Freud's birth, popular magazines reported that this "Darwin of the Mind" had fathered modern psychiatry, psychology, child raising, education, and sexual attitudes. But by 1975, Sir Peter Medawar, a medical research scientist and a Nobel Prize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195046374
• ISBN13: 9780195046373
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"