| Description |
xvii, 237 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Before the Revolution. 1. Psychiatry in Russia and Its Discontents. 2. The Beginnings of Russian Psychoanalysis. 3. The Consolidation of a Movement -- Pt. 2. Psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union. 4. Freud in the House of Lenin: Psychoanalysis Ascendant. 5. The Decline and Fall of Soviet Psychoanalysis. 6. Killing Freud. 7. After Stalin. 8. The Rehabilitation of the Unconscious. 9. Psychoanalysis and Soviet History -- App. Freud's Letters to Osipov |
| Summary |
This book is the first comprehensive history of psychoanalysis in Russia from the last years of the tsars to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using rare Russian sources and newly opened Soviet archives, Martin A. Miller explores Sigmund Freud's influence in Russia during the twentieth century, discusses the lives of the Russian Freudians, and explicates for the first time original Russian psychoanalytic case studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page) and index |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Psychoanalysis -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.
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Psychoanalysis -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
98003630 |
| ISBN |
0300068107 |
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