num_pages: 810
description: A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, this is the most highly regarded biography of Freud ever written. To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long fruitful and embattled life. Drawing on a vast store of unpublished documents, including hundreds of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay deals frankly with the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, and his theoretical innovations which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind.
language: English
title: Freud: a Life for Our Time
titlecomplete: Freud: a Life for Our Time
characters: Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Otto Rank, Anna Freud, Wilhelm Fliess, Karl Abraham, Josef Breuer
genres: History, Psychology, Science, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, Biography Memoir, European History, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1321
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company