Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis Book

An invigorating and original account of the evolution of the most important idea of our centuryPsychoanalysis--a systematic attempt to understand the inner workings of the mind--has survived perennial critique to emerge as the single most important intellectual development of the twentieth century. In Cassandra's Daughter, analyst Joseph Schwartz, draws together the great events in the first century of analysis, its theoretical shifts and developments--from its origins in medical history and its attempt to heal "the sickness of the soul" to the present day cult of Prozac.Cassandra's Daughter covers Freud's stirrings as a young research scientist in anti-semitic Vienna, his early work with Brewer, Jung's split with Freud, and analysis's diverging path in America. It is an accessible and jargon-free introduction to one of the greatest stories of the century: the attempt to address and to heal human suffering, not to simply theorize abstractly about human behavior. Whether you are a staunch Freudian or whether you believe a cigar is always just a cigar, this is the most sensitive, learned and revelatory book on the evolution of analysis.Read More