The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanaly

Product description Review The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank is an excellent scholarly resource and makes a substantive contribution by shedding light on Rank and the psychoanalytic movement.--Simon Boag, PsycCRITIQUESA compelling story, and one well worth the study required by a careful reading of this book.--Clifford Cunningham, Suns News CorporationAn important exchange of letters. It is very gratifying that it finally has appeared.--Anna Bentinck von Schoonheten, Luzifer-AmorDoctors sometimes like to be perceived as Olympian gods, but these letters remind us how often gods are venal, petty, jealous and spiteful. The excellent book, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis, focuses on the early career of Otto Rank, as one of Freud's most gifted disciples.--Michael Dirda, Washington PostFor anyone at all interested in the history of the psychoanalytic movement, this 1906-25 exchange of letters, translated here from German, between Freud and his henchman--the 28-years-younger Rank--is a delightful treasure trove . . . Suited to a broad audience, the book is not at all obscure. A source on which readers will continue to draw.--ChoiceFor those well versed in the world of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, for those who are students of Freud, and for those who know the historical players in this game, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank is a wonderful text filled with excellent research and understanding of the growth and the beginning of the demise of Freudian analysis. It is comprehensive, academic, and a must for those are historians of the era, historians of psychoanalysis, or those simply curious about the men who started a revolution in mental health.--New York Journal of BooksThe book offers much more than a compilation of letters but provides in-depth contextual analysis and refreshingly candid and human perspectives on these men in the early days of the important theory.--Reference and Research Book NewsThere is. . . something eminently refreshing about a straightforward book like The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis.--Marcus M. Silverman, Modern PsychoanalysisThis edited collection provides a critical balance to other published accounts of these men and the early years of the psychoanalytic movement . . . should be essential reading for scholars and specialists familiar with the major ideas and players of early psychoanalysis.--Library Journal About the Author E. James Lieberman, M.D., is a clinical professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He has written, edited, and translated a number of books, including two by Otto Rank Psychology and the Soul and The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, both published by Johns Hopkins. Robert Kramer, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on action learning and consults on leadership development worldwide. He is the editor of A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures of Otto Rank.