Wexler The Analyst

A Daughter's Memoir
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55471-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

The Analyst is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her father’s intense private life and explores how his life and work illuminate the broader reaches of Freudian ideas in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wexler, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue
1. On the Road to Topeka
2. Out of Brooklyn
3. Becoming Freudian
4. The Slap, Explained
5. Ex-Topekan
6. Losing the Road Map
7. Freudian Fathers and (Proto-) Feminist Daughters
8. Revelations
9. The Big Freedom
10. (A) Challenging Fate
11. Workshops of the Possible
12. Making Friends, Making Love
13. Retelling Lives
14. Life Underwater
15. The Old Leaf
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Sayings of Milton Wexler
Published Papers and Reviews by Milton Wexler
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Wexler is the author of a two-volume biography of Emma Goldman as well as Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research (1995) and The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington’s and the Making of a Genetic Disease (2008). She is a former Guggenheim fellow and is active on the board of the Hereditary Disease Foundation.