Paul Roazen
Paul Roazen is Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. His books include Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk, Freud and his Followers, Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst's Life, and Encountering Freud: The Politics and Histories of Psychoanalysis.
The Psychoanalysis of Sexual Functions of Women
This is the second work of Helene Deutsch's study into female psychology and sexuality. The first volume of her influential work, The Psychology of Women, appeared in 1944, to be followed by the... (more)
Heresy: Sandor Rado and the Psychoanalytic Movement
Although Sandor Rado's contributions to the development of psychoanalysis are beginning to be recognised, they have been marked by controversy. This book contains an oral history of Rado's work, his... (more)
How Freud worked: First-hand accounts of patients
An examination of the work that Freud did with his patients. This work presents analyses of interviews with ten of Freud's patients, in an attempt to find some answer to the controversy surrounding... (more)
Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk
A highly controversial study of the life and work of Victor Tausk, one of Freud's most gifted followers. Roazen draws on historical sources to support his thesis that Freud envied and feared Tausk,... (more)
Freud and His Followers
This study of Sigmund Freud, and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle, focuses on the human dramas involved as well as the ideas of the participants. Roazen draws on... (more)
Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst's Life
Although Sandor Rado's contributions to the development of psychoanalysis are beginning to be accepted, they have been characterised by controversy. This book contains an oral history of Rado's work,... (more)
Erik H. Erikson: The power and limits of a vision
In his quest for what is enduring in psychoanalysis, Roazen turns to Erik H. Erikson. This examination of his contributions to the literature - among them the concepts of identity, life cycle and the... (more)
Freud - Political and social thought
Sigmund Freud had broad ambitions about what psychoanalysis could add to human thought, but Freud's own writings have rarely been assessed within the perspective of political philosophy. This work... (more)
The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
This work explores the vagaries of Freud's impact over the 20th century, including controversial issues relating Freud to histiography of psychoanalysis. Other topics covered include "Freud Studies",... (more)
The Trauma of Freud: Controversies in Psychoanalysis
Despite its aloofness from ethical questions, psychoanalysis has attracted to itself an extraordinary degree of sectarian bitterness. Original thinkers have become condemned as dissidents. This title... (more)
Edoardo Weiss: The House That Freud Built
Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970) was a favoured disciple of Freud and is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy. Although he was the author of six books and over a hundred professional... (more)
On the Freud watch: public memoirs:
"On the Freud Watch: Public Memoirs" opens and closes with autobiographical pieces, but the book as a whole reflects an intensely personal account of how Roazen became known as a "controversial"... (more)
The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
Today Sigmund Freud's legacy seems as hotly contested as ever. He continues to attract fanaticism of one kind or another. If Freud might be disappointed at the failure of his successors to confirm... (more)