Description: As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire, fantasy, and irrationality as it is about interest, reality, and reason, the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance
Brief description:
Geoffrey Cocks is Royal G. Hall Professor of History at Albion College. He is the editor of The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, and the co-editor of Medicine and Modernity and German Professions, 1800-1950.
Review Quotes:
-[T]his account of the recent history of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and medicine in Germany is a much broader and more sophisticated analysis than the usual simple recounting of who developed what theory when, and who modified that theory or practice... [T]his book is important reading for all in the helping professions; it requires the reader to become aware of how one's professional life is imbedded in a social-historical context and will be affected by and/or can affect the political world in which we live.-
--J. R. Thompson, Choice