Book description
In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the
history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At
once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted gems of
scholarship, Rudnytsky's essays are "re-visions" in that each
sheds fresh light on its subject but they are also avowedly
"revisionist" in their scepticism towards all forms of
psychoanalytic orthodoxy. Beginning with a judicious reappraisal of
Freud and ranging in scope from King Lear to contemporary neuroscience,
Rudnytsky treats in depth the lives and work of Ferenczi, Jung, Stekel,
Winnicott, Coltart, and Little, each of whom sought to "rescue
psychoanalysis" by summoning it to live up to its highest ideals.
