Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

Product Description 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 Review Janet Malcolm 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 gets the facts right, but far more impressive, she has been able to capture and convey the claustral atmosphere of the profession. Her book is journalism become art. -- Joseph Adelson, The New York Times Book Review Miss Malcolm asks the questions that every patient has ever wanted to ask but knew it was hopeless...More momentous still, Miss Malcolms questions get answers. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Malcolm provides an elegant, precise summary of the history and development of Freuds ideas...She has drawn a provocative portrait of one physician in Freuds impossible profession. -- Jean Strouse, Newsweek Her treatment of the subject is original, rich and will reward anyone interested in the science or business of changing minds. -- E. James Lieberman, The Washington Post Book World From the Inside Flap Through an intensive study of Aaron Green, a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis. From the Back Cover Through an intensive study of Aaron Green, a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis. About the Author Janet Malcolms 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.