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A Most Dangerous Method

The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein

Author John Kerr
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$21.00 US
Knopf | Vintage
5.2"W x 8"H x 1.3"D  
On sale Aug 02, 1994 | 624 Pages | 9780679735809
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In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be a momentous collaboration and deep friendship. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood Sabina Spierlrein, who had had relations with both men before becoming an innovative psychoanalyst herself. This is the mesmerizing book which reconstructs the fatal triangle which encompasses clinical method and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail.
John Kerr (1950–2016) is best known for writing A Most Dangerous Method, a book that became the basis for a play and a movie. Kerr was trained as a clinical psychologist at New York University. He was an editor at The Analytic Press, a scholarly press specializing in works on psychoanalysis, and was coeditor and a contributor to Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. He died in Portland, Maine at age 66. View titles by John Kerr
“Both a superb cultural history and a gripping narrative. . . . Daring. —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Surrounds Spielrein’s personal history with all the debates, squabbles, negotiations for precedence, knifings in the back that accompanied the development of . . .  psychoanalytic schools.” —The Atlantic

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In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be a momentous collaboration and deep friendship. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood Sabina Spierlrein, who had had relations with both men before becoming an innovative psychoanalyst herself. This is the mesmerizing book which reconstructs the fatal triangle which encompasses clinical method and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail.

Author

John Kerr (1950–2016) is best known for writing A Most Dangerous Method, a book that became the basis for a play and a movie. Kerr was trained as a clinical psychologist at New York University. He was an editor at The Analytic Press, a scholarly press specializing in works on psychoanalysis, and was coeditor and a contributor to Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. He died in Portland, Maine at age 66. View titles by John Kerr

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“Both a superb cultural history and a gripping narrative. . . . Daring. —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Surrounds Spielrein’s personal history with all the debates, squabbles, negotiations for precedence, knifings in the back that accompanied the development of . . .  psychoanalytic schools.” —The Atlantic

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