Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind Contributor(s): Kramer, Peter D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060598956 ISBN-13: 9780060598952 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: A concise and seductive biography of the father of psychoanalysis is penned by a "New York Times" bestselling author and one of the top psychiatrists in practice today. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2006048659 |
Series: Eminent Lives |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.34" W x 7.38" (0.62 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
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Publisher Description: Often referred to as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud championed the talking cure and charted the human unconscious. But though Freud compared himself to Copernicus and Darwin, his history as a physician is problematic. Historians have determined that Freud often misrepresented the course and outcome of his treatments--so that the facts would match his theories. Today Freud's legacy is in dispute, his commentators polarized into two camps: one of defenders; the other, fierce detractors. Peter D. Kramer, himself a practicing psychiatrist and a leading national authority on mental health, offers a new take on this controversial figure, one both critical and sympathetic. He recognizes that although much of Freud's thought is now archaic, the discipline he invented has become an inescapable part of our culture, transforming the way we see ourselves. Freud was a myth-maker, a storyteller, a writer whose books will survive among the classics of our literature. The result of Kramer's inquiry is nothing less than a new standard history of Freud by a modern master of his thought. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kramer, Peter D.: - Peter D. Kramer, M.D., "possibly the best-known psychiatrist in America" (New York Times), is the bestselling author of Listening to Prozac, Should You Leave?, Spectacular Happiness, Moments of Engagement, and Against Depression. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is a professor at Brown University and maintains a private practice. |