Freud's Case Studies: Self-Psychological Perspectives

Freud's Case Studies: Self-Psychological Perspectives Review

These thoughtful self-psychological reexaminations of Freud's case studies clarify Freud's criteria for including and excluding data, underscore the theoretical and political imperatives that shaped his narrative accounts, and provide new insight into the transference-countertransference constellations that emerged during treatment. Clinically, these reappraisals take us beyond Freud's preoccupation with his patients' oedipal narratives to a self-psychological exploration of these same patients' intersubjective experiences.

Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Vulture's Tail: A Refreshing Look at Leonardo's Sexuality

Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Vulture's Tail: A Refreshing Look at Leonardo's Sexuality Review

Freud initiated psychobiography with his 1910 Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood, but was mislead by translators of Leonardo's recollection. Leonardo recalled having been visited by a hawk while still in his cradle. Freud was led to identify it as a vulture. Because the vulture was believed to be always female and self-impregnating, the vulture was the perfect mother symbol.

The fact that in Leonardo's dream the bird had inserted its tail into the infant's mouth, Freud interpreted as an insertion of the mother's nipple that would fuse later in Leonardo's mind with the insertion of a male member, thus forming the basis of Leonardo's homosexuality. The mistaken identity of the bird aroused severe criticism that effectively damned Freud's book.

Andersen proves that the mistake was not Freud's. After bringing to light information that Freud could not have known about Leonardo's illegitimate birth and the circumstances of his infancy and youth in Florence, Andersen provides a new reading, seamlessly fusing psychoanalysis with fifteenth-century Florentine art history.

An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine

An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine Review

From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of When Germs Travel, the astonishing account of the years-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder drug, and how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it—or because of it. One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery.
 
Both men were practicing medicine at the same time in the 1880s: Freud at the Vienna General Hospital, Halsted at New York’s Bellevue Hospital. Markel writes that Freud began to experiment with cocaine as a way of studying its therapeutic uses—as an antidote for the overprescribed morphine, which had made addicts of so many, and as a treatment for depression.
 
Halsted, an acclaimed surgeon even then, was curious about cocaine’s effectiveness as an anesthetic and injected the drug into his arm to prove his theory. Neither Freud nor Halsted, nor their colleagues, had any idea of the drug’s potential to dominate and endanger their lives. Addiction as a bona fide medical diagnosis didn’t even exist in the elite medical circles they inhabited.
 
In An Anatomy of Addiction, Markel writes about the life and work of each man, showing how each came to know about cocaine; how Freud found that the drug cured his indigestion, dulled his aches, and relieved his depression. The author writes that Freud, after a few months of taking the magical drug, published a treatise on it, Über Coca, in which he described his “most gorgeous excitement.” The paper marked a major shift in Freud’s work: he turned from studying the anatomy of the brain to exploring the human psyche.
 
Halsted, one of the most revered of American surgeons, became the head of surgery at the newly built Johns Hopkins Hospital and then professor of surgery, the hospital’s most exalted position, committing himself repeatedly to Butler Hospital, an insane asylum, to withdraw from his out-of control cocaine use.
 
Halsted invented modern surgery as we know it today: devising new ways to safely invade the body in search of cures and pioneering modern surgical techniques that controlled bleeding and promoted healing. He insisted on thorough hand washing, on scrub-downs and whites for doctors and nurses, on sterility in the operating room—even inventing the surgical glove, which he designed and had the Goodyear Rubber Company make for him—accomplishing all of this as he struggled to conquer his unyielding desire for cocaine.
 
An Anatomy of Addiction tells the tragic and heroic story of each man, accidentally struck down in his prime by an insidious malady: tragic because of the time, relationships, and health cocaine forced each to squander; heroic in the intense battle each man waged to overcome his affliction as he conquered his own world with his visionary healing gifts. Here is the full story, long overlooked, told in its rich historical context.

Freud On The Acropolis: Reflections On A Paradoxical Response To The Real

Freud On The Acropolis: Reflections On A Paradoxical Response To The Real Review

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This book analyzes a subtle but intriguing mental event—the paradoxical surprise that people sometimes feel when they come upon something that they have felt sure existed but are seeing for the first time. Noted first by Sigmund Freud, this common but odd experience proves remarkably resistant to trivial explanation.Upon seeing the Acropolis for the first time, Freud remarked, “So all this really does exist, just as we learned in school!” Similarly, in everyday life we often feel compelled to verify firsthand the scene of a recent event, even though we never doubted its occurrence. Susan Sugarman probes this experience and its relation to other everyday sensibilities, such as the pleasure of reencountering the familiar and people’s fascination with authenticity. Although the experience manifests itself in a seeming lapse in logic and remains obscure in a way that one might—and that Freud did—associate with pathological formations, it is neither illogical nor pathological. On the contrary, it observes a moment of mental health and personal integration.Similar to approaches in modern philosophy and linguistics, Sugarman’s analysis is applied here accessibly and in ordinary terms to concrete behavior and experience. As a result, thought and feeling, normally believed to elude systematic inquiry, yield to it, allowing for genuine progress in understanding the human mind.

Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk

Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk Review

A thought-provoking meditation on grief, mortality, and the soul, through a reading of Freud's argument about creativity with poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Matthew von Unwerth, a young Freudian analyst, explores Freud's provocative ideas on the connections between creativity and mortality in this elegant literary musing.

Taking as his starting point Freud's essay "On Transience," in which the analyst describes a walk with two unnamed companions (poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Rilke's lover, writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé), Unwerth examines the origins of human creativity from a psychoanalytic standpoint, tracing the arc of Freud's beliefs on the subject from his passionately curious teenage years to his death in 1939 after a long struggle with cancer.

Drawing on a variety of literary and historical sources-from The Odyssey to Goethe to Freud's earliest letters-Freud's Requiem is both an intimate personal drama and an absorbing intellectual debate. In the spirit of books by Alain de Botton, Lesley Chamberlain, and Dava Sobel, it begins with a meeting of the minds among three of Europe's great intellects-an event Freud may have significantly reimagined for his essay-and weaves a delicate and moving treatise on art, love, death, and the way the three are inextricably linked.

The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985 (Hale, Nathan G. Freud and the Americans, V. 2.)

The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985 (Hale, Nathan G. Freud and the Americans, V. 2.) Review

Although Freud made only one visit to the United States, the spectacular rise and equally precipitous decline of his theories on human behavior continue to make headlines. In 1956, celebrating the centennial of Freud's birth, popular magazines reported that this "Darwin of the Mind" had fathered modern psychiatry, psychology, child raising, education, and sexual attitudes. But by 1975, Sir Peter Medawar, a medical research scientist and a Nobel Prize winner, announced in the New York Review of Books that "doctrinaire psychoanalytic theory" was the "most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century." In 1984, a headline in Ms. Magazine--"The Hundred Year Cover Up: How Freud Betrayed Women"--neatly summed up two decades of scathing feminist criticism. How much of this extraordinary sea change in Freud's American reputation is due to the nature of psychoanalysis itself, and how much to shifts in American society? And what, if anything, of the Freudian legacy will survive the current crisis of psychoanalysis?

The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis, the long awaited conclusion to Nathan G. Hale's pathbreaking history of the American psychoanalytic movement, Freud and the Americans, offers a brilliant analysis of Freud's continuing impact on the American cultural landscape. With skill and insight, Hale traces the extraordinary popularization of Freud's ideas through magazines, books, and even novels and Hollywood movies, and reveals how the vast human laboratory of World War I seemed to confirm Freud's theories about the irrational and brutal elements of human nature. Not only did psychoanalysis prove effective for treating the frightful nightmares and other symptoms of shell-shocked soldiers, its promise of helping individuals fulfill their potential fit neatly into the uniquely American pattern of self-improvement and upward mobility. Weighing the recurrent controversies that raged over the scientific validity of Freud's theories with the arguments of influential intellectuals who saw in psychoanalysis a sweeping criticism of traditional sexual mores, Hale shows how and why psychoanalysis came to have such a pervasive influence on the fabric of American life, from child care to criminology. The twenties and thirties saw psychoanalysis transform itself from the calling of a self-chosen group of avant-garde psychiatrists and neurologists to a profession with its own institutions for training and certification. Hale documents how the American insistence on medical training, while greatly annoying to Freud himself, was essential to U.S. acceptance of the psychoanalytic profession. He recreates the enormous vogue enjoyed by psychoanalysis in the years after the Second World War, and the inevitable backlash leading up to the current crisis. As feminists rebelled against Freud's rigid gender roles, new psychotherapies and new drugs narrowed the problems for which psychoanalysis seemed appropriate, and even orthodox analysts began to question the effectiveness of the therapy when analyses lengthened from one or two to five, ten, or more years.

In its final chapters, The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis offers a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the psychoanalytic movement as it continues to respond to these challenges. Illuminating both the boldness and sweep of Freud's analytic vision and its limitations, it is destined to become a definitive work.

Über Psychoanalyse (German Edition)

Über Psychoanalyse (German Edition) Review

Fuenf Vorlesungen gehalten September 1909, zur 20jaehrigen Gruendungsfeier der Clark University in Worcester, Mass.

Back to Freud's Texts: Making Silent Documents Speak

Back to Freud's Texts: Making Silent Documents Speak Review

Blazing a trail unprecedented in Freud research, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis turns to Freud's original manuscripts to provide a fresh and authentic view of his methods of working, his psychological states, the events of his life, and the development of his thinking. This book is at once a study of Freud's creativity, an authoritative commentary on previously unexplored aspects of his life and work, and an important reference on his own texts.

Freud's War

Freud's War Review

Despite his worldwide reputation as the father of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud’s security in his native Vienna changed overnight when Hitler’s forces annexed Austria on March 12, 1938. His books had already been burned across Germany, and now he and his family were at immediate risk. The Nazis carried out regular raids on Jewish families’ homes, and the Freuds were no exception. They suffered a period of house arrest and two months of uncertainty, before finally securing papers for emigration to England and making a last-minute dramatic escape. It was after becoming refugees in Britain, however, that the Freuds’ story takes a fascinating turn. Following their escape from Austria, both Sigmund’s son Martin and his grandson Walter enlisted in the British Forces, going on to fight for Britain behind enemy lines in Austria.

The Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity

The Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity Review

The `riddle of femininity', like Freud's reference to women's sexuality as a `dark continent', has been treated as a romantic aside or a sexist evasion, rather than a problem to be solved. In this first comprehensive study, Teresa Brennan suggests that by placing these theories in the context of Freud's work overall, we will begin to understand why femininity was such a riddle for Freud.

Freud (Teach Yourself)

Freud (Teach Yourself) Review

teach yourself Freud is an accessible and fascinating guide to the 'father of psychoanalysis' and his influential work. Ruth Snowden explores Freud's upbringing and the environment into which he was born and grew up before analysing the development of his thinking. She examines his early work and influences, from his medical training to his interest in hysteria and hypnosis and the germination of his first ideas about the unconscious and psychoanalysis. She then moves on to look at the fundamental aspects of his thinking and their development his interpretation of dreams, his theories on sexuality, the nature of identity and his views on society in general. Each aspect of the man and his work is explained in a straightforward and jargon-free way, making often-complex theories easy to get to grips with.

Freud's Dora: A Psychoanalytic, Historical, and Textual Study

Freud's Dora: A Psychoanalytic, Historical, and Textual Study Review

In this brilliant re-evaluation of one of Freud`s most famous cases, Patrick J. Mahony alters the way we view the woman called "Dora," Freud`s handling of the case, and his editing of the published account. Mahony claims that Freud`s case study is not a model of treatment but a remarkable exhibition of the rejection of a patient by a clinician and an inkblot test of Freud`s misapprehensions about female sexuality and adolescence.

Women Beyond Freud: New Concepts Of Feminine Psychology

Women Beyond Freud: New Concepts Of Feminine Psychology Review

This volume contains the proceedings of a historic meeting, attended by over 2,000 mental health professionals and lay people, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Centre in New York City. Each contributor to this book offers unique insight into the seminal work of Karen Horney, one of the first psychoanalysts to question Freud's male-centred theories and clinical practices. The book includes accounts of the formative girlhood experiences that awakened Horney's spirit of independence and the intellectual and cultural currents of her time that influenced her work. A contribution by a preeminent sex therapist challenges the notion that liberated women threaten the potency of men. Other contributors define the characteristics of relationships that foster or hinder women's psychological growth and discuss the conflicts faced by adolescent girls as they become aware of gender differences.

After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning

After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning Review

Uses psychoanalytic theories of learning to explore contemporary issues in education.

Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (Refiguring Modernism)

Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (Refiguring Modernism) Review

In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a 'death instinct' bent on returning the living organism to its origin of undifferentiated matter. In Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Margaret Iversen uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure principle.

Lacan was in close contact with the Surrealists and, early in his career, exchanged ideas with Dalí. This book offers a detailed reading of Dalí's 'paranoiac-critical' tour de force, The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus, in which he demonstrates a method of interpretation that involves the projection and analysis of paranoid fantasies. The author later discusses the aesthetic dimension of the disintegrative death drive explored in Georges Bataille's Eroticism and in Anton Ehrenzweig's Hidden Order of Art, both of which inspired Robert Smithson. Iversen also takes up a postwar-era narrative that examines Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. Beyond Pleasure shows that the aesthetics of Freud's theory continue to resonate in the contemporary art world.

Lucian Freud: Recent Drawings and Etchings

Lucian Freud: Recent Drawings and Etchings Review

Interview with the artist by Leigh Bowery.

Essay by Angus Cook. 22 plates

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Volume 51, Anna Freud Anniversary Issue (The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Se)

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Volume 51, Anna Freud Anniversary Issue (The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Se) Review

This volume of "Psychoanalytic Study of the Child" commemorates the 100th birthday of Anna Freud, who, with Ernst Kris and Heinz Hartman, founded this annual repository of writings on child development.