num_pages: 624
description: In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself.A solid new interpretation of the short-lived but oft-analyzed collaboration between Freud and Jung, in which the mysterious Sabina Spielrein figures prominently. Using Spielrein's correspondence and journals--discovered in the 1970's and first appearing in Aldo Carotenuto's A Secret Symmetry (1982)--Kerr traces a fascinating, credible web of influence and cross-fertilized ideas that he weaves skillfully into a record of psychoanalytic history.
language: English
title: A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud & Sabina Spielrein
titlecomplete: A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud & Sabina Spielrein
characters: Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi, Sabina Spielrein, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Eugen Bleuler, Wilhelm Fliess, Otto Gross
genres: Historical, Media Tie In, Psychology, History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Gender, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 611
publisher: Vintage Books