| To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Freida Fromm-Reichmann Contributor(s): Hornstein, Gail A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1590511832 ISBN-13: 9781590511831 Publisher: Other Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: Using newly discovered family records and a rich archive of tape-recorded sessions with patients, Hornstein pens the first biography of the maverick therapist who inspired the bestselling "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden". of photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005014218 |
| Physical Information: 1.34" H x 6.14" W x 9.18" (1.63 lbs) 528 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A fascinating and dramatic account of a controversial figure in twentieth-century psychiatry. In this "dazzling and provocative" ("Publishers Weekly") biography, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. "To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World" tells the extraordinary life story of the German-Jewish refugee analyst who accomplished what Freud and almost everyone else thought impossible: she successfully treated schizophrenics and other seriously disturbed mental patients with intensive psychotherapy, rather than medication, lobotomy, or shock treatment. Written with unprecedented access to a rich archive of clinical materials and newly discovered records and documents from across Europe and the United States, Hornstein's meticulous and "delightfully lucid" ("Kirkus Reviews") biography definitively reclaims the life of Fromm-Reichmann. The therapist at the core of Joanne Greenberg's "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" is also the analyst who had an affair with, and later married, her patient Erich Fromm. A pioneer in her field, she made history as the pivotal figure of the unique and legendary mental hospital, Chestnut Lodge. |