| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prologue -- On the Road to Topeka -- Out of Brooklyn -- Becoming Freudian -- The Slap, Explained -- Ex-Topekan -- Losing the Road Map -- Freudian Fathers and (Proto-) Feminist Daughters -- Revelations -- The Big Freedom -- (A) Challenging Fate -- Workshops of Possibility -- Making Friends, Making Love -- Retelling Lives -- Life Under Water -- The Old Leaf -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"Milton Wexler was among the most unconventional and compelling figures of the golden age of psychoanalysis in America. An influential and sometimes controversial analyst, he pursued interests ranging from the treatment of schizophrenia to group therapy with artists to advocacy for research on Huntington's disease. At a time when psychoanalysis tended to validate adjustment and conformity, Wexler embraced personal and social liberation, for himself as well as for others. From Teachers' College at Columbia University to the Menninger Foundation in Topeka to the galleries and gilded hills of Hollywood, he traversed the country and the century"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2022) |
| Subject |
Wexler, Milton, 1908-2007.
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Wexler, Alice, 1942-
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| SUBJECT |
Wexler, Alice, 1942- fast |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysts -- United States -- Biography
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Psychoanalysts -- United States -- Familiy relationships -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
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Psychoanalysts
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022006277 |
| ISBN |
9780231554718 |
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0231554710 |
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