Contemporary Perspectives on Freud's Seduction Theory and Psychoanalysis: Revisiting Masson’s ‘The Assault on Truth’

Editor : Warwick Middleton, Editor : Martin J. Dorahy

Contemporary Perspectives on Freud's Seduction Theory and Psychoanalysis: Revisiting Masson’s ‘The Assault on Truth’

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 248
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97777
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032556345
  • ISBN 10 : 103255634X

Table of Contents


Foreword
John Briere

Preface
Warwick Middleton and Martin Dorahy

1. Background to “The Assault on Truth”
Jeffrey Masson

2. Sándor Ferenczi, Robert Fliess, Florence Rush, and Jeffrey Masson
Warwick Middleton

3. Child Sexual Abuse and Psychoanalytic Theory: Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi’s Childhood Seduction
Arnold Rachman

4. The Perpetuation of Deliberate and Inadvertent Insensitivities within Psychoanalysis: Origins, Rhymes, and Reasons
Richard Kluft

5. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson revisited: The seduction controversies about reality versus fantasy
Henry Zvi Lothane

6. Power, courage, trauma, betrayal, and memory: An interview with Professor Jennifer Freyd
Jennifer Freyd and Warwick Middleton

7. The Memories of Millions
Lynn Crook

8. Another Suppression of Incest and Its Victims?
Christine Courtois

9. To Believe or not believe: The assault on the truth, the mind, and the body
Orit Badouk Epstein

10. Grappling with Truth: Psychotherapy and The Assault on Truth
Kate McMaugh and Martin Dorahy

11. The Assault on Truth in the Academy: Talk Therapy and the Social Control of Women
Bruce Cohen

12. Has ‘The Assault on Truth’ had any influence on today’s mental health services?
John Read

Afterword
Martin Dorahy and Warwick Middleton

Postscript. Preliminary Notes Toward a New Psychoanalysis and Facilitating Psychoanalysts’ Work with Dissociative Disorder Patients
Richard Kluft

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