Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth

Author(s) : Brett Kahr

Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 348
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 96947
  • ISBN 13 : 9781800131903
  • ISBN 10 : 9781800131

Table of Contents

Introduction
My Love of Deceased Psychoanalysts

PART I: SIGMUND FREUD AS AN ENGLISHMAN
Chapter 1 - “Zooming” in Old Vienna: How Sigmund Freud Became an English-Speaking Psychoanalyst

Chapter 2 - Freud’s London Death Bed: Notes on the “Invalid Couch” at Maresfield Gardens

PART II: UNPUBLISHED WINNICOTTIANA
Chapter 3 - Donald Winnicott’s Wives: From Alice Buxton Taylor to Clare Britton

Chapter 4 - “The Piggle” Family Papers: Unpublished Archival Gems Regarding Winnicott’s Most Iconic Case

PART III: DR. AND MRS. BOWLBY
Chapter 5 - “Half-Baked Pseudo-Scientific Rubbish”: How John Bowlby Reinvented Child Psychiatry

Chapter 6 - Ursula Longstaff Bowlby: The Creative Muse of Attachment Theory

PART IV: TWO TRULY UNASSUMING ICONS
Chapter 7 - Breakfast with Marion Milner: Reminiscences of the World’s Oldest Psychoanalyst

Chapter 8 - Enid Eichholz Balint: The Birth of Couple Psychoanalysis in England

PART V: THE BAD BOYS OF BRITISH PSYCHOANALYSIS
Chapter 9 - Rajah on the Couch: The Magnificence and Misery of Masud Khan

Chapter 10 - R.D. Laing’s Missing Tooth: The Secret Roots of Genius and Madness

Conclusion
How to Be Intimate with a Corpse: The Role of Psychoanalytical Historiography

Acknowledgements
References
Index

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