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Kerr, John, 1950-2016.

A most dangerous method : the story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein / John Kerr.

1st ed.

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.

xi, 607 pages ; 24 cm

The discovery of a cache of documents in a Swiss basement prompted psychologist Kerr to reexamine the relationship between Freud and Jung at the beginnings of the practice of psychoanalysis. Sabina Spielrein, a young Jewish woman, came to Jung for counseling and then became his student, colleague and lover. When Jung broke off the relationship from fear of scandal, she turned to Freud and unwittingly revealed to him some of Jung's private thoughts about him and the new science, leading to confrontations, recriminations, and ultimately the well-known break between the two founders.

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Spielrein, Sabina.

Psychoanalysis -- History.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-592) and index.

pt. 1: A case of hysteria. Her father's hand ; A psychiatric monastery ; Jung's test case ; The organic untruthfulness of woman -- pt. 2: The new doctrine of nervous health. The rise of the Zurich School ; Jung and Freud ; The science of fairy tales ; Sexual and psychological researches -- pt. 3: The movement. America and the core complex ; The house with two skulls ; The International Psychoanalytic Association ; The spiritual trend in psychoanalysis ; The dying and resurgent god -- pt. 4: Intimate matters. On transformation ; The death of a friendship ; The rest is silence -- pt. 5: The aftermath. The history of the psychoanalytic movement ; In search of a great destiny.

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