Psychoanalytic Memoirs

Jeffrey Berman

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781350338562
• eBook ISBN: 9781350338586
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom's A Matter of Death and Life. Offering in each chapter a brief character sketch of the memoirist, the book shows how personal writing fits into their other work, often demonstrating the continuities and discontinuities in an author's life as well as discussing each author's contributions to psychoanalysis, whether positive or negative.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Sigmund Freud: An Autobiographical Study
• Chapter 2 The Wolf-Man: Memoirs
• Chapter 3 Helene Deutsch: Confrontations with Myself—an Epilogue
• Chapter 4 Wilhelm Stekel: Autobiography
• Chapter 5 C.G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
• Chapter 6 Wilfred R. Bion: War Memoirs 1917–19
• Chapter 7 Marion Milner: On Not Being Able to Paint
• Chapter 8 M. Masud R. Khan: The Long Wait
• Chapter 9 Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: Final Analysis
• Chapter 10 F. Robert Rodman: Not Dying
• Chapter 11 Louis Breger: Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting
• Chapter 12 Brenda Webster: The Last Good Freudian
• Chapter 13 Madelon Sprengnether: Crying at the Movies
• Chapter 14 Sophie Freud: Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family
• Conclusion: Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom—A Matter of Death and Life
• Works Cited
• Index
• Copyright