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ISBN Number: 9780306816109
Subtitle: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
Author: Maddox, Brenda
Author: Maddox, Brenda
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: Medical, Other Personnel
Subject: Social Scientists & Psychologists
Subject: Historical, British
Subject: General Psychology & Psychiatry
Subject: Movements, Psychoanalysis
Publication Date: May 2008
Cover Type: Paperback
Written in: English
Illustrations: Y
Number of Pages: 354
Book Size: 8.96x5.63x.87 in. 1.10 lbs.
The saturation of the English-speaking world with psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud’s disciple, colleague, and biographer-and the man who rescued Freud from the Nazis-he led the international psychoanalytic movement, shifting its vortex from Vienna to London and spreading its influence to Toronto, New York, and Boston. While negotiating the ferocious politics of the movement, Jones also managed an imposing series of liaisons, including an heiress and her maid, analysands, and a “Druid Bride.” Unlike Freud, he never had to wonder, “What do women want?”
Synopsis:
The Saturation of the English-Speaking world with Freudian psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud's disciple, colleague, biographer, and empire builder, he led the international psychoanalytic movement and moved its vortex from Vienna to London, and its influence to Toronto, New York, and Boston. While negotiating the ferocisous politics and rivalry of the movement, Jones also managed an imposing series of liaisons that included an heiress and her maid, analysands, and a "Druid Bride." Jones, unlike Freud, never had to wonder "what do women want?" From Jones's first encounter with Freud's writings as a medical student to the eve of World War II, when he orchestrated the master's escape to London a hairsbreadth away from the death camps, Maddox lays bare a dark and creative era, and a colorfully flawed but powerfully influlential man.
Synopsis:
A life of the man who built international psychoanalysis and rescued Freud, by the acclaimed biographer of "Nora: The Real Molly Bloom"
