Dr. Freud

A Life

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by Paul Ferris

Counterpoint

Due/Published May 1999, 480 pages, paper

ISBN 1582430136

Ferris tells the story of a long, contentious, and often desperate life. He writes of Freud's obsessive interest in sexual frustration, noting the context of Freud's own passionless marriage, and recounts Freud's advocacy of cocaine as a miracle drug, without neglecting his regret at discovering its painful repercussions. Like it says, "A Life." Don't expect insight into psychoanalytic theory.

"Soaring hopes, remarkable insights, hideous missteps, and finally, the pinched, heartbreaking limits of the human condition. That's what you'll find when you read Dr. Freud. Paul Ferris has done a marvelous job."--Washington Post