Freud : Inventor of the Modern Mind

by Kramer, Peter D.

• ISBN13: 9780061768897
• ISBN10: 0061768898
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions-sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the "facts" match his theories. Peter D. Kramer-acclaimed author, practicing psychiatrist, and a leading national authority on mental health-offers a stunning new take on this controversial figure. Kramer is at once critical and sympathetic, presenting Freud the mythmaker, the storyteller, the writer whose books will survive among the classics of our literature, and the genius who transformed the way we see ourselves.

Author Biography

Peter D. Kramer, M.D., "possibly the best-known psychiatrist in America" (New York Times), is the bestselling author of Listening to Prozac, Should You Leave?, Spectacular Happiness, Moments of Engagement, and Against Depression. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is a professor at Brown University and maintains a private practice.

Table of Contents

Climate of Opinion	p. i
Development of the Hero	p. 17
Steps and Stumbles	p. 28
The Problem of Psychology	p. 44
Seduction	p. 61
Dreams	p. 82
Consolidation	p. 98
Agenbite	p. 115
New World	p. 127
Friend and Foe	p. 142
Structure	p. 159
Culture	p. 176
Limitations	p. 185
Final Things	p. 192
Loss	p. 200
Bibliographic Note	p. 212
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