Freud, Dora and Vienna 1900 by Hannah S Decker

Freud, Dora and Vienna 1900 by Hannah S Decker

The psychoanalytic encounter of Sigmund Freud, at mid-life, and Dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, provides a glimpse into the private lives of upper-middle-class Jews in fin-de-siecle Vienna - their professional concerns, familial relations, sexual undercurrents, and responses to the social forces of anti-semitism and the derogation of women. Decker places the treatment of Dora in a larger social and historical context and pursues the lives of the two protagonists before and after their meeting.

Hannah S. Decker is a cultural historian of psychiatry and Professor of History at the University of Houston. She is also Adjunct Professor in Medical History in the Menninger Dept. of Psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Center for Psychoanalytic
Studies (Houston). Her publications include Freud in Germany: Revolution and Reaction in Science, 1893-1907 and Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900. In 2007 she received the Carlson Award from the Cornell University Medical College for extraordinary contributions to the history of psychiatry and
psychoanalysis. She is married and has two grown children.

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ISBN 13	9780029078303
ISBN 10	002907830X
Title	Freud, Dora and Vienna 1900
Author	Hannah S Decker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	1990-12-01
Number of pages	299
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