Psychoanalysis : The Impossible Profession

Janet Malcolm

ISBN 10: 1783784539 / ISBN 13: 9781783784530

Edité par Granta Books Jan 2018, 2018

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Neuware - The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do Can it help anyone What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her skills as a reporter and interviewer come into play, their complexity is limpidly revealed.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Psychoanalysis : The Impossible Profession
• Éditeur: Granta Books Jan 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1783784539
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781783784530
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu

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Synopsis

The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her skills as a reporter and interviewer come into play, their complexity is limpidly revealed.

À propos de l?auteur

Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) is widely considered to be one of America's most notable literary journalists. She was born in Prague and was educated at the University of Michigan. She was a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including In the Freud Archives, The Journalist and the Murderer, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes all published by Granta. She won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press) in 2008. Her final book Still Pictures is forthcoming in 2023.