Freud's Patients (eBook)

A Book of Lives

Borch-Jacobsen Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (Autor)

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2021
240 Seiten
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-454-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Portraits of the thirty-eight known patients Sigmund Freud treated clinically-some well-known, many obscure-reveal a darker, more complex picture of the famed psychoanalyst. Everyone knows the characters described by Freud in his case histories: "e;Dora,"e; the "e;Rat Man,"e; the "e;Wolf Man."e; But what do we know of the people, the lives behind these famous pseudonyms: Ida Bauer, Ernst Lanzer, Sergius Pankejeff? Do we know the circumstances that led them to Freud's consulting room, or how they fared-how they really fared-following their treatments? And what of those patients about whom Freud wrote nothing, or very little: Pauline Silberstein, who threw herself from the fourth floor of her analyst's building; Elfriede Hirschfeld, Freud's "e;grand-patient"e; and "e;chief tormentor;"e; the fashionable architect Karl Mayreder; the psychotic millionaire Carl Liebmann; and so many others? In an absorbing sequence of portraits, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen offers the stories of these men and women-some comic, many tragic, all of them deeply moving. In total, thirty-eight lives tell us as much about Freud's clinical practice as his celebrated case studies, revealing a darker and more complex Freud than is usually portrayed: the doctor as his patients, their friends, and their families saw him.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• ISBN-10: 1-78914-454-X / 178914454X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78914-454-3 / 9781789144543