On The Couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud /
Kravis, Nathan,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-188) and index.
Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis? -- Symposion and convivium -- The evolution of the couch and the rise of the sofa -- Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression -- The medicalization of comfort -- Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and therapeutics -- Freud's couch -- The analyst's moral interior -- Whence? whither? whether?
Psychoanalysis
Sofas
Patients