Title: Diario di una segreta simmetria
First published: 1980
Description: Here is the fascintating story of Sabina Spielrein, a young Russian woman brought to Jung's psychiatric clinic in Zurich to be cured of a serious nervous disorder. Once cured of her illness, Spielrein falls deeply in love with her analyst. Despite his attraction to her, Jung chooses to break off the relationship when it threatens to cause a scandal. Spielrein then confides in Freud, Jung's mentor and father figure, and he becomes confessor to them both. Through Spielrein's diary and letters ... the reader is presented with a rare glimpse into the essence of psychoanalytic work and into the lives of three of its key figures"--Back cover.
Subjects: Correspondence, History, Mentally ill women, Psychotherapist and patient, Case studies, Psychoanalysts, Biography, Relations with women, Mentally ill, Jung, c. g. (carl gustav), 1875-1961, Psychoanalysts, biography, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Physician-Patient Relations, Psychoanalysis
Places: Europe, Soviet Union
People: C. G. Jung (1875-1961), Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Sabina Spielrein, Sabrina Spielrein