Psychoanalysis by Janet Malcolm
The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her skills as a reporter and interviewer come into play, their complexity is limpidly revealed.
Janet Malcolm has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seenHer book is journalism become art -- Joseph Adelson * New York Times Book Review *
Entertaining, readable and well-researched * London Review of Books *
Entertaining, readable and well-researched * London Review of Books *
Janet Malcolm's books include Reading Chekhov, In the Freud Archives, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Journalist and the Murderer and Forty-One False Starts. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York, where she now lives.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783784530 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783784539 |
| Title | Psychoanalysis |
| Author | Janet Malcolm |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2018-01-04 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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