Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers - Softcover

Describes Freud's relationships with women, including family members, colleagues, students, and patients, and looks at how these relationships affected the development of his theories

There was an array of extraordinary women in Freud's life: his sister-in-law, Minna - his closest intellectual confidante, if not more; Anna, his brilliant daughter; and finally Freud's female followers, including Lou Andreas Salome, Princess Marie Bonaparte and Helene Deutsch, who made psychoanalysis the first profession in which women have played an equal part, in theory and practice, with men. Here too are controversies - the female orgasm and the seduction theory - that continue to provoke debate. It is a story of the women in Freud's life, and how his relationships with them profoundly influenced psychoanalysis and feminism.