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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      November 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511979842
      9780521509909
      9780521729789
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511979842
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.78kg, 414 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 450 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Medicine, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest, Psychiatry
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    How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position? How did it eclipse rival psychologies and psychotherapies, such that it became natural to bracket Freud with Copernicus and Darwin? Why did Freud 'triumph' to such a degree that we hardly remember his rivals? This book reconstructs the early controversies around psychoanalysis and shows that rather than demonstrating its superiority, Freud and his followers rescripted history. This legend-making was not an incidental addition to psychoanalytic theory but formed its core. Letting the primary material speak for itself, this history demonstrates the extraordinary apparatus by which this would-be science of psychoanalysis installed itself in contemporary societies. Beyond psychoanalysis, it opens up the history of the constitution of the modern psychological sciences and psychotherapies, how they furnished the ideas which we have of ourselves and how these became solidified into indisputable 'facts'.

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    ‘Attempts to debunk the legend in the 1970s and 80s failed. But a current assault, helped by a wealth of 'declassified' material, correspondence and critical studies, looks more likely to dismantle the monomyth … the legend is 'fraying from all sides'.’

    Source: New Scientist

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