Family romance, family secrets
Subtitle: case notes from an American psychoanalysis, 1912
By: Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon.
Contributors: Simon, Bennett, 1933-
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Emerson, Louville Eugene -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc; Psychoanalysis -- Case studies; Psychoanalysis -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.; Case studies.
Description: A portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the second decade of the 20th century. It presents an early psychoanalyst's session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest. Accompanying these notes are commentaries that situate the case historically.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-322) and index.