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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
"Janet Malcom has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. Her book is journalism become art." --Joseph Andelson, The New York Times Book Review
Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its development in the United States. It provides rare insight into the contradictory world of psychoanalytic training and treatment and a foundation for our understanding of psychiatry and mental health.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Sep 12nd, 1982
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.99in - 5.19in - 0.56in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780394710341
- Categories: • Psychopathology - General• Psychotherapy - General• Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis
About the Author
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What people are saying
Sam Adler-Bell is a journalist and writer.
@rianwatt To literary types looking dip their toe in, I often recommend janet Malcolm’s “psychoanalysis: the impossible profession” (for a somewhat cynical view) and Adam Phillips’s “Becoming Freud” (for a more embracing one)
Books (The Adderall Diaries, Happy Baby) movies (About Cherry, After Adderall). Newsletter (occasional) https://t.co/SkWMKuF7Cw. Pessimist.
@ann_manov @default_friend I hope you have both read Psycho Analysis, the Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm. Just thinking this makes me want to re-read it actually.
Praise for this book
"Miss Malcolm asks the questions that every patient has ever wanted to ask but knew it was hopeless...More momentous still, Miss Malcolm's questions get answers." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
"Malcolm provides an elegant, precise summary of the history and development of Freud's ideas...She has drawn a provocative portrait of one physician in Freud's impossible profession." -- Jean Strouse, Newsweek
"Her treatment of the subject is original, rich and will reward anyone interested in the science or business of changing minds." -- E. James Lieberman, The Washington Post Book World
What people are saying
Sam Adler-Bell is a journalist and writer.
@rianwatt To literary types looking dip their toe in, I often recommend janet Malcolm’s “psychoanalysis: the impossible profession” (for a somewhat cynical view) and Adam Phillips’s “Becoming Freud” (for a more embracing one)
Books (The Adderall Diaries, Happy Baby) movies (About Cherry, After Adderall). Newsletter (occasional) https://t.co/SkWMKuF7Cw. Pessimist.
@ann_manov @default_friend I hope you have both read Psycho Analysis, the Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm. Just thinking this makes me want to re-read it actually.