Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2013
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 184
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 33391
- ISBN 13 : 9780415883191
- ISBN 10 : 0415883199
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Jonathan Lenin on 10/06/2022 21:24:24
(5 out of 5)
This is a quite well researched historical chronicle of the development of psychoanalysis in Europe, and then in exile in Britain and the USA. Because the author utilizes interviews with prominent psychoanalysts who suffered persecution, emigration, loss of family, culture and language, the reader easily feels her way into the experience. The material thus takes on an immediacy and authenticity. Via these conversations, Kuriloff's remarks in conversation, and her interpretations in the book reveal much about the impact of trauma and loss in general, but, moreover, on the course and nature of psychoanalytic theory and praxis, then and now. An under appreciated moment impacting psychoanalysis gets its due, in a scholarly, well written and lively read.