Freud : the making of an illusion

Biografie

Zusammenfassung: An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others
Zusammenfassung: Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin - and for excellent reasons. Nevertheless, the idea persists that some of his proposals were visionary discoveries. In Freud: The Making of an Illusion, Frederick Crews investigates the record and reveals findings that will revolutionize our conception of the therapist, the theorist, and the human being. Drawing on rarely consulted archives, Crews shows us a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who never produced a corroborated cure, who promoted cocaine in one decade and was deluded by it in the next, who misunderstood the psychological controversies of the era, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentos who had helped him to rise. The contrary legend has persisted, Crews shows, thanks to Freud's self-fashioning as a master detective of the psyche and later through a campaign of censorship and obfuscation conducted by his followers. A monumental biographical study and a slashing critique, Freud: The Making of an Illusion will stand as the last word on one of the most significant and contested figures of the twentieth century. -- from dust jacket.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781627797177 ; 1627797173
• Maße: 24 cm
• Umfang: xvi, 746 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Illustrationen

Klassifikation und Themen

• Schlagwort: Freud, Sigmund

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): New York
• (wer): Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
• (wann): [2017]
• Urheber: Crews, Frederick C.

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