Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science, and Psychoanalysis - Hardcover

Webster, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465095798 ISBN 13: 9780465095797

Publisher: Basic Books, 1995

Synopsis

Examines modern controversies over Freud and Freudian thought while questioning the theory of infantile sexuality and showing where Freud consistently misdiagnosed his patients and failed to make his claimed cures.

About this title

Synopsis:

In this engrossing new study of Sigmund Freuds life and work, Richard Webster has set out to provide a clear answer to the controversies that have raged for a century around one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. Tracing Freuds essentially religious personality to his childhood, Webster shows how the founder of psychoanalysis allowed his messianic dreams to shape the science he created and to lead him ever deeper into a labyrinth of medical error. Meticulously researched and powerfully argued, Why Freud Was Wrong is destined to become a classic work. 001 0465095801

About the Author:

Richard Webster, the author of A Brief History of Blasphemy, studied English literature at the University of East Anglia, where he has also taught. His articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Quarterly, The Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, and many other journals. He lives in Suffolk, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0465095798
• ISBN 13: 9780465095797
• Binding: Hardcover