A Most Dangerous Method
The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
Published on 23. February 2011
624 pages
978-0-307-78812-2 (ISBN)
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"Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant." -Newsday
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Direcetd by Dabid Cronenbertg and STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl 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 that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself.
With the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy, A Dangerous Method is impossible to put down.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Direcetd by Dabid Cronenbertg and STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl 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 that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself.
With the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy, A Dangerous Method is impossible to put down.
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John Kerr (1950-2016) is best known for writing A Most Dangerous Method, a book that became the basis for a play and a movie. Kerr was trained as a clinical psychologist at New York University. He was an editor at The Analytic Press, a scholarly press specializing in works on psychoanalysis, and was coeditor and a contributor to Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. He died in Portland, Maine at age 66.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- 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
