Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City. Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its development in the United States. It provides rare insight into the contradictory world of psychoanalytic training and treatment and a foundation for our understanding of psychiatry and mental health.

Janet Malcom has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. When I began reading I thought condescendingly, 'She will get the facts right, and everything else wrong.' She does get the facts right, but far more pressive, she has been able to capture and convey the claustral atmosphere of the profession. Her book is journalism become art. --Joseph Andelson, The New York Times Book Review

Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/12/1982
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.19w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780394710341
ISBN10: 0394710347
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology | General
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | General
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis

About the Author
Janet Malcolm's previous books are Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography; Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession; In the Freud Archives; The Journalist and the Murderer; The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings; The Silent Woman: Slyvia Plath and Ted Hughes; and The Crime of Sheila McGough. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.