Freud
Subtitle: inventor of the modern mind
By: Peter D. Kramer
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Eminent lives
Publisher: Atlas Books; HarperCollins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780060598952
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund, -- 1856-1939; Psychoanalysts -- Austria -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions--sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the "facts" match his theories. Peter D. Kramer--acclaimed author, practicing psychiatrist, and a leading national authority on mental health--offers a stunning new take on this controversial figure. Kramer is at once critical and sympathetic, presenting Freud the mythmaker, the storyteller, the writer whose books will survive among the classics of our literature, and the genius who transformed the way we see ourselves."--Publisher's website.

A brief biography on the life and works of Sigmund Freud that offers both a critical and sympathetic look into his practice and theories.