A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2005
The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century - though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt.More than a hundred years after the publication of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, we're no longer in thrall, says cultural historian Eli Zaretsky, to the 'romance' of psychotherapy and the authority of the analyst. Only now do we have enough perspective to assess the successes and shortcomings of psychoanalysis, from its late-Victorian Era beginnings to today's age of psychopharmacology. In Secrets of the Soul, Zaretsky charts the divergent schools in the psychoanalytic community and how they evolved -sometimes under pressure -from sexism to feminism, from homophobia to acceptance of diversity, from social control to personal emancipation. From Freud to Zoloft, Zaretsky tells the story of what may be the most intimate science of all.
- ISBN:
- 9781400079230
- 9781400079230
- Category:
- Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-11-2005
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Three Rivers Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 448
- Dimensions (mm):
- 203x127x23mm
- Weight:
- 0.39kg
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