Psychoanalysis by Janet Malcolm
The Impossible Profession
A probing, reportage-style examination of the world of psychoanalysis that treats it less as a closed science than as a contentious profession: through profiles of analysts and patients, institutional history, and vivid case vignettes, the narrative exposes how personal ambition, ethical dilemmas, and power dynamics shape clinical practice and theoretical disputes; it shows the persistent tension between the discipline’s lofty claims about making the unconscious intelligible and the messy realities of training, money, secrecy, and human fallibility that keep psychoanalysis perpetually unsettled.
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- 1981
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- American
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- English
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