The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

by Alexander Stille

Book Overview

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult.

In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders, Saul Newton and Jane Pearce, wanted to start...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374600392
• ISBN13: 9780374600396
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"