The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her skills as a reporter and interviewer come into play, their complexity is limpidly revealed.

A fascinating exploration of psychoanlysis, its patients, practitioners and critics, from one of America's most respected and most controversial journalists.

About the Author
Janet Malcolm's books include Reading Chekhov, In the Freud Archives, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Journalist and the Murderer and Forty-One False Starts. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York, where she now lives.

Reviews
Janet Malcolm has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. Her book is journalism become art -- Joseph Adelson * New York Times Book Review *
Entertaining, readable and well-researched * London Review of Books *



Book Information
ISBN 9781783784530
Author Janet Malcolm
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 140g
Dimensions(mm) 200mm * 132mm * 12mm