Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis

Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new 'servant' class. Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new phenomenon and the profound changes this reflects in our concepts of motherhood and class and gender relations.

Table of Contents:
Preface, Gelfand 1. Freud's Parental Identifications as a Source of Some Contradictions Within Psychoanalysis, Holt 2. Sigmund-sur-Seine: Fathers and Brothers in Charcot's Paris, Gelfand 3. The Two Medical Worlds of Sigmund Freud, Shorter 4. Freud and the Force of History, McGrath 5. The Sources of Freud's Methods for Gathering and Evaluating Clinical Data, Macmillan 6. Reassessing Freud's Case Histories: The Social Construction of Psychoanalysis, Sulloway 7. Two Major Difficulties for Freud's Theory of Dreams, Grunbaum 8. Pre-Freudian Discover of Dream Meaning: The Achievements of Charcot, Janet, and Krafft-Ebing, Sand 9. Freud and the Mind-Body Problem, Wallace IV 10. Freud's "Dora" Case in Perspectives: The Medical Treatment of Hysteria in Austria at the Turn of the Century, Decker 11. Freud's Patients: First-Person Accounts, Roazen 12. Freud as Family Therapist: Reflections, Mahony 13. A Case History Before Freud: Intimations of the Unconscious in Wadsworth, Marcus 14. The Idyll in the Harz Mountains: Freud's Secret Committee, Grosskurth Epilogue: History and the Clinician, Kerr

About the Author :
Toby Gelfand, Ph.D., is Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Professionalizing Modern Medicine: Paris Surgeons and Medical Science in the Eighteenth Century. He recent research dealing with Charcot and the School of the Salpetriere will culminate in a forthcoming biography of Charcot, coauthored with Christopher Goetz and Michel Bonduelle. John Kerr completed his training in clinical psychology at the Doctoral Program of New York University and was Associate Editor at The Analytic Press. He is the author of A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Spielrein, and Freud, a study of the early history of the psychoanalytic movement.

Review :
"The high level of scholarship in the presentations makes the volume a significant contribution to the Freud studies literature. At the same time, the clarity of exposition and the avoidance of insider jargon make the volume an excellent introduction to the genre." - Barry Silverstein, Ph.D., Contemporary Psychology