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Dr. Freud Goes to Washington

Debate over psychoanalysis takes an exhibitionistic turn

The opening of a Library of Congress exhibit on Sigmund Freud focuses attention on the disputed merit of psychoanalytic ideas and treatment.

References:

Crews, F.C. 1998. Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend. New York: Viking.

Macmillan, M. 1997. Freud Evaluated. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Further Readings:

Bornstein, R.F., and J.M. Masling. 1998. Empirical Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Unconscious. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Bower, B. 1993. Sudden recall. Science News 144(Sept. 18):184.

______. 1991. Oedipus wrecked. Science News 140(Oct. 19):248.

Edelman, G.M. 1992. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire. New York: BasicBooks.

Roth, M.S. 1998. Freud Conflict and Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Sources:

Frederick C. Crews
University of California, Berkeley
English Department
322 Wheeler
Berkeley, CA 94720-1030

Michael S. Roth
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 22, November 28, 1998, p. 347. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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