Truth Games: Lies, Money, and Psychoanalysis

by John Forrester and John Forrester

Book Overview

Lying on the couch, the patient must tell all. And yet, as the psychoanalyst well knows, the patient is endlessly unable and unwilling to speak the truth. This perversity at the heart of psychoanalysis, a focus on intimate truths even as the lines between truth and lies are being redrawn, is also at the centre of this book of essays by the historian of psychoanalysis John Forrester. Continuing the work begun in Dispatches from the Freud Wars, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674539621
• ISBN13: 9780674539624
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"