num_pages: 192
description: 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. "Janet Malcom has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. When I began reading I thought condescendingly, 'She will get the facts right, and everything else wrong.' She does get the facts right, but far more pressive, she has been able to capture and convey the claustral atmosphere of the profession. Her book is journalism become art."  —Joseph Andelson, The New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
titlecomplete: Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
genres: 20th Century, Science, Journalism, History, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Essays, Theory
ratings_count: 1105
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group