"Analysis and Exile is
not only a remarkable portrait of a young man's development - it also gives an
unusually intimate portrait of the early years of child psychoanalysis, the
rise of fascism in Europe and the shameful treatment of Jewish refugees
escaping Nazi persecution. This is both social history and a rich account of a
young man's struggles to make sense of his own place in the world, as that
world transforms around him." - Nick Midgley, author of Reading Anna
Freud and Co-Director of the Child Attachment and
Psychological Therapies Research Unit at The Anna Freud Centre

"Heller weaves her remarkable
resources of diaries, letters, Freud's clinical notes, recorded conversations
and drawings, into pure gold. In these delicious pages we enter Berggasse 19
through the perspective of a little boy, the son of a Viennese candy magnate in
treatment with Anna Freud. We see the psychoanalytic work in action, but the
delights of this book are not just for psychoanalysts; we are treated to so
many and varied pleasures, a rich historical fabric, privileged access to
figures of consequence, a remarkable family story, girded intellectual
underpinnings, and incandescent prose." - Maura Spiegel, Co-Director of The
Division of Narrative Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities and
Ethics, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons