Freud (eBook)

The Making of An Illusion

Frederick Crews (Autor)

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2017
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-288-1 (ISBN)

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A stylish and biting study of scientific mendacity

One has to admire Crews's story: the way he tells it, and the marvelous blending of the different sources

'Anyone who enjoys reading the systematic dismantling of a reputation will relish this riveting expose ... highly convincing ... This devastating book might kick-start the long awaited process of his downfall from grace.

For those who worship Freud, and even those millions who have simply admired his ideas, Crews's rigorous and captivating detective work will be a bracing challenge.

An elegant and relentless exposé ... Crews comes to bury Freud, not to praise him, and he does so convincingly. Impressively well-researched, powerfully written, and definitively damning.

Intensively researched and readable book ... with fastidious and forensic care, Crews assembles his material into a 762-page charge sheet of lies, hypocrisy, falsified evidence, sexual creepery, 'intellectual parasitism', corruption, cruelty, botched physical and mental treatments, money-grabbing, 'thick-headedness', bad science, wild, evidence-free speculation and autobiography shiftily disguised as clinical evidence.

This riveting and masterful reassessment puts the final nail in the coffin of Sigmund Freud's misguided career by meticulously documenting his willful descent into pseudoscience. Altogether a fascinating read!

A tremendously important book.

Frederick Crews has written a riveting, masterful biography of Freud that demolishes forever the myth of the brilliant, heroic conquistador of the human mind. Delving deeply into hitherto suppressed archival material, Crews paints an unforgettable portrait of an utterly incompetent psychotherapist whose ruthless pursuit of wealth and fame led him to disregard the welfare of his patients as well as the scruples of scientific method

Elegantly written ... a punchy addition to the ongoing argument over [Freud's] significance

Investigating the famed investigator of the human mind, Frederick Crews reveals Freud as a self-aggrandizing charlatan who cured no one and lacked the most elementary insight into human beings. The Freudian myth - one of the thought-deforming tyrannies of the 20th century - is hereby at an end. This book is as exhilarating as the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 2 x 8pp b/w plates
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Schlagworte: Abuse • Adam Phillips • A Dangerous Method • A Life for Our Time • Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst • Biography • Carl Jung • Cocaine • critique • Debunker • Élisabeth Roudinesco • Freudianism • Freud: In His Time and Ours • Joel Whitebook • Oedipus theory • Peter Gay • Psychoanalysis • Psychology • psychotherapy • Sigmund Freud • Vienna
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-288-2 / 1782832882
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-288-1 / 9781782832881