Freud Inventor of the Modern Mind

Name: Freud Inventor of the Modern Mind
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ISBN: 9780060598952

ISBN-10: 0060598956

ISBN-13: 9780060598952

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter D. Kramer

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Often referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud championed the "talking cure" and charted the human unconscious. But though Freud compared himself to Copernicus and Darwin, his history as a physician is problematic. Historians have determined that Freud often misrepresented the course and outcome of his treatments-;so that the facts would match his theories. Today Freud's legacy is in dispute, his commentators polarized into two camps: one of defenders; the other, fierce detractors. Peter D. Kramer, himself a practicing psychiatrist and a leading national authority on mental health, offers a new take on this controversial figure, one both critical and sympathetic. He…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/21/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.12" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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Climate of Opinion



Development of the Hero



Steps and Stumbles



The Problem of Psychology



Seduction



Dreams



Consolidation



Agenbite



New World



Friend and Foe



Structure



Culture



Limitations



Final Things



Loss


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