Freud: The Making of an Illusion

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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator

Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin―but nonetheless the idea persists that a few of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a perfect volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who actually never cured any person, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug able to curing a variety of diseases, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to upward thrust. The legend has persisted, Crews shows, way to Freud’s fictive self-invention as a master detective of the psyche, and later through a campaign of censorship and falsification conducted by his followers.

A monumental biographical study and a slashing critique, Freud: The Making of an Illusion will stand as the final word on probably the most significant and contested figures of the twentieth century.

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