Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

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Release Year
1982
ISBN
9780394710341
Book Title
Psychoanalysis : the Impossible Profession
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
7.9 in
Publication Year
1982
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.4 in
Author
Janet Malcolm
Genre
Psychology
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy / General, Mental Health
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Width
5.1 in
Number of Pages
192 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394710347
ISBN-13
9780394710341
eBay Product ID (ePID)
148777

Product Key Features

Book Title
Psychoanalysis : the Impossible Profession
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1982
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy / General, Mental Health
Genre
Psychology
Author
Janet Malcolm
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.1 in

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82-040036
Reviews
"Janet Malcolm has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. When I began reading I thought condescendingly, 'She will get the facts right, and everything else wrong.' She does gets the facts right, but far more impressive, she has been able to capture and convey the claustral atmosphere of the profession. Her book is journalism become art." -- Joseph Adelson, The New York Times Book Review "Miss Malcolm asks the questions that every patient has ever wanted to ask but knew it was hopeless...More momentous still, Miss Malcolm's questions get answers." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times "Malcolm provides an elegant, precise summary of the history and development of Freud's ideas...She has drawn a provocative portrait of one physician in Freud's impossible profession." -- Jean Strouse, Newsweek "Her treatment of the subject is original, rich and will reward anyone interested in the science or business of changing minds." -- E. James Lieberman, The Washington Post Book World
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
150.195
Synopsis
From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City. "Janet Malcom has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. Her book is journalism become art." --Joseph Andelson, The New York Times Book Review Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its development in the United States. It provides rare insight into the contradictory world of psychoanalytic training and treatment and a foundation for our understanding of psychiatry and mental health., From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City. Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its development in the United States. It provides rare insight into the contradictory world of psychoanalytic training and treatment and a foundation for our understanding of psychiatry and mental health. Janet Malcom has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. When I began reading I thought condescendingly, 'She will get the facts right, and everything else wrong.' She does get the facts right, but far more pressive, she has been able to capture and convey the claustral atmosphere of the profession. Her book is journalism become art. --Joseph Andelson, The New York Times Book Review, From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City. Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its development in the United States. It provides rare insight into the contradictory world of psychoanalytic training and treatment and a foundation for our understanding of psychiatry and mental health. "Janet Malcom has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. When I began reading I thought condescendingly, 'She will get the facts right, and everything else wrong.' She does get the facts right, but far more pressive, she has been able to capture and convey the claustral atmosphere of the profession. Her book is journalism become art." --Joseph Andelson, The New York Times Book Review

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