A Dangerous Method
The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein
Published on 15. November 2018
624 pages
978-1-78649-871-7 (ISBN)
Description
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In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle. In between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein: a patient and lover to Jung, a colleague and confidante to Freud, and one of the greatest minds in modern psychiatry.
This mesmerizing book reconstructs the fatal triangle of Freud, Jung and Spielrein. It encompasses clinical methods and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail. Learned, humane and impossible to put down, A Dangerous Method is intellectual history with the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy.
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle. In between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein: a patient and lover to Jung, a colleague and confidante to Freud, and one of the greatest minds in modern psychiatry.
This mesmerizing book reconstructs the fatal triangle of Freud, Jung and Spielrein. It encompasses clinical methods and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail. Learned, humane and impossible to put down, A Dangerous Method is intellectual history with the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,36 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78649-871-7 (9781786498717)
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Atlantic Books
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John Kerr was trained as a clinical psychologist at New York University. He is an editor at The Analytic Press, a scholarly press specialising in works on psychoanalysis, and was co-editor and a contributor to Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. He divides his time between Boston and New York City.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One a Case Of Hysteria
- 1. Her Father's Hand
- 2. A Psychiatric Monastery
- 3. Jung's Test Case
- 4. The Organic Untruthfulness of Woman
- Part Two The New Doctrine Of Nervous Health
- 5. The Rise of the Zurich School
- 6. Jung and Freud
- 7. The Science of Fairy Tales
- 8. Sexual and Psychological Researches
- Part Three The Movement
- 9. America and the Core Complex
- 10. The House with Two Skulls
- 11. The International Psychoanalytic Association
- 12. The Spiritual Trend in Psychoanalysis
- 13. The Dying and Resurgent God
- Part Four Intimate Matters
- 14. On Transformation
- 15. The Death of a Friendship
- 16. The Rest Is Silence
- Part Five The Aftermath
- 17. The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
- 18. In Search of a Great Destiny
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
