Cassandra's daughter : a history of psychoanalysis

First American edition published 1999.

1 Boundaries. 2 Freud. 3 Hysteria and the origins of the analytic hour. 4 First theories. 5 First splits. 6 The transference. 7 Expanding the frontier: psychoanalysis in the United States I. 8 New theory, new splits: psychoanalysis in the United States II. 9 Child psychoanalysis: beginnings of a new paradigm. 10 Breakthrougjh in Britain. 11 Transmuting collision: psychoanalysis, feminism and the sixties. 12 Futures

'...the first complete history of psychoanalysis, from its origins in nineteenth-century medical science to the present day--that is, from the couch to Prozac....probes the relationship between psychoanalysis and physics and biology, creatively exploring the criticism that psychoanalysis is not a "legitimate" science, and successfully reasserts its importance not as a systematic attempt to describe experience, but to understand it. The real question for humans who suffer is not whether analysis produces understandings that are "scientific"--but if they are any good....a learned, revelatory, original--and humane--book.'

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