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Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis, and his name has become a landmark in cultural history, marking the transition from nineteenth-century order to the modern and post-modern world. His theories concerning sexuality, memory, dreams, self-deception and the unconscious mind created a furore when first advanced and have never ceased to invite controversy, In recent times, both the man and the discipline he invented - psychoanalysis - have come under reevaluation (and attack) on both sides of the Atlantic. This book depicts Freud's life and ideas, from his birth above a blacksmith's forge in a secluded corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to his death in 1939 in London, where he had come as a refugee from Nazi Europe.
Stephen Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He worked for many years as a consultant at the Littlemore and Warneford Hospitals and was honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Dr Wilson retired from clinical practice in 2008. His poetry collection Fluttering Hands is also published by Greenwich Exchange.
"The challenge of writing a 'pocket biography and to succeed in being concise without being superficial, is considerable... He succeeds admirably .... Freud comes alive from the first pages... I would recommend it to anyone who asked for a short introduction to Freud."
Dr Jane Milton In Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"….. a thoroughly refreshing experience."
Daphne Briggs, Bulletin of the Oxford Psychotherapy Society
ISBN 978-1-906075-30-9
Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis, and his name has become a landmark in cultural history, marking the transition from nineteenth-century order to the modern and post-modern world. His theories concerning sexuality, memory, dreams, self-deception and the unconscious mind created a furore when first advanced and have never ceased to invite controversy, In recent times, both the man and the discipline he invented - psychoanalysis - have come under reevaluation (and attack) on both sides of the Atlantic. This book depicts Freud's life and ideas, from his birth above a blacksmith's forge in a secluded corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to his death in 1939 in London, where he had come as a refugee from Nazi Europe.
Stephen Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He worked for many years as a consultant at the Littlemore and Warneford Hospitals and was honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Dr Wilson retired from clinical practice in 2008. His poetry collection Fluttering Hands is also published by Greenwich Exchange.
"The challenge of writing a 'pocket biography and to succeed in being concise without being superficial, is considerable... He succeeds admirably .... Freud comes alive from the first pages... I would recommend it to anyone who asked for a short introduction to Freud."
Dr Jane Milton In Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"….. a thoroughly refreshing experience."
Daphne Briggs, Bulletin of the Oxford Psychotherapy Society
ISBN 978-1-906075-30-9