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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

Janet Malcolm

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#2276 of 3,809 books · #232 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1982).

From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City. Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its development in the United States. It provides rare insight into the contradictory world of psychoanalytic training and treatment and a foundation for our understanding of psychiatry and mental health.

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Publisher
Knopf
ISBN-13
9780394710341
Topics
PsychoanalysisPsychiatry and mental healthHistory of psychology

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