Freud's patients : a book of lives / Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, author.

Standardized Title:

Patients de Freud. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis--Case studies.

Psychoanalysis.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

302 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, [2021]

Summary:

"In total, 38 lives tell us much about Freud's clinical practice as his celebrated case studies, revealing too a darker and more complex Freud than is usually portrayed: the doctor as his patients, their friends, and their families saw him."--Inside book jacket

"Everyone knows the characters described by Freud in his case histories: 'Dora', the 'Rat Man', the 'Wolf Man'. But what do we know of the people, the lives behind these famous pseudonyms: Ida Bauer, Ernst Lanzer, Sergius Pankejeff? Do we know the circumstances that led them to Freud's consulting-room, or how they fared - how they really fared - following their treatments? And what of those patients about whom Freud wrote nothing, or very little: Pauline Silberstein, who threw herself from the fourth floor of her analyst's building; Elfriede Hirschfeld, Freud's 'grand-patient' and 'chief tormentor'; the fashionable architect Karl Mayreder; the psychotic millionaire Carl Liebmann; and so many others? In an absorbing sequence of portraits, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen offers the stories of these men and women - some comic, many tragic, all of them deeply moving. In total, thirty-eight lives tell us as much about Freud's clinical practice as his celebrated case studies, revealing too a darker and more complex Freud than is usually portrayed: the doctor as his patients, their friends and their families saw him" -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Bertha Pappenheim [1859

1936]

2. Ernst Fleischl von Marxow [1846

1891]

3. Mathilde Schleicher [1862

1890]

4. Anna von Lieben [1847

1900]

5. Elise Gomperz [1848

1929]

6. Franziska von Wertheimstein [1844

1907]

7. Fanny Moser [1848

1925]

8. Martha Bernays [1861

1951]

9. Pauline Silberstein [1871

10. Adele Jeiteles [1871

1970]

11. Ilona Weiss [1867

1944]

12. Aurelia Kronich [1875-1929]

13. Emma Eckstein [1865

1924]

14. Olga Honig [1877

1961]

15. Wilhelm von Griendl [1861

1898]

16. Baroness Marie von Ferstel [1868

1960]

17. Margit Kremzir [c. 1870

18. Ida Bauer [1882

1945]

19. Anna von Vest [1861

1935]

20. Bruno Walter [1876

1962]

21. Herbert Graf [1903

1973]

22. Alois Jeitteles [1867

23. Ernst Lanzer [1878

1914]

24. Elfriede Hirschfeld [1873

1938]

25. Kurt Rie [1875

1908]

26. Albert Hirst [1887

1974]

27. Baron Victor von Dirsztay [1884

28. Sergius Pankejeff [1887

1979]

29. Bruno Veneziani [1890

1952]

30. Elma Palos [1887

31. Loe Kann [1882

32. Karl Meyreder [1856

33. Margarethe Csonka [1900

1999]

34. Anna Freud [1895

1982]

35. Horace Frink [1883

36. Monroe Meyer [1892

1939]

37. Scofield Thayer [1889

38. Carl Liebmann [c. 1900

1969].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300).

Thirty-one of the 38 vignettes collected here were originally published in French as Les Patients de Freud: Destins in 2011. -- Title page verso

Translated by Andrew Brown

Other Format:

Electronic version: Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. Patients de Freud. English. Freud's Patients.

ISBN:

9781789144550

1789144558

OCLC:

1227269662