A Most Dangerous Method, John Kerr
A Most Dangerous Method, John Kerr
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A Most Dangerous Method
The Story of Jung, Freud, & Sabina Spielrein

Author: John Kerr

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 22 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2011


Synopsis

In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. In between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself. Drawing on years of research (and a cache of recently discovered documents), this mesmerizing book reconstructs the fatal triangle of Freud, Jung, and Spielrein. It encompasses clinical method and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail. Learned, humane, and impossible to put down, A Most Dangerous Method is intellectual history with the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy.

About John Kerr

John Kerr was trained as a clinical psychologist at New York University. He is an editor at the Analytic Press, a scholarly press specializing in works on psychoanalysis, and was coeditor and a contributor to Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. He divides his time between Boston and New York City.

About Peter Berkrot

Peter Berkrot, a forty-year veteran of stage and screen, has voiced over 450 audiobook titles, winning Earphones Awards, a 2012 Audie Award nomination, and a 2016 Audie Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erik on December 26, 2012

This book will fascinate anyone interested in the personal biographies of Freud or Jung, most particularly in reference to their breakup. It will also be of interest to psychotherapists who will encounter transferences and counter-transferences in their practices as it is a case study of the phenome......more

Goodreads review by Dennis on January 14, 2015

If you're fascinated by the idea of an unconscious mind, as I am, then this is a book for you. You’ll need that fascination to sustain you through some 600 pages of detailed and painstaking chronicling of the Freud-Jung relationship and the early development of the psychoanalytic movement just after......more

Goodreads review by Adriana on May 30, 2024

"Algumas vezes, quando uma pessoa não consegue se fazer entender, é possível que a culpa seja dela própria. Talvez por estar falando de forma obscura; talvez por reclamar demais; talvez por falar de forma muito pessoal. E, talvez, Spielrein pudesse ser incluída nos três casos. Mas, analisando bem, n......more

Goodreads review by Beth (bibliobeth) on November 21, 2012

An interesting account of Freud and Jung and "the woman who came between them!" Except she didn't. Not REALLY. I haven't seen the film but they always try to sex these things up don't they? With some fascinating insights into the world of psycho-analysis, I was intrigued by this book, and although a......more

Goodreads review by Diana on October 29, 2019

This is interesting and important history, but Kerr unfortunately seems to think that his historical research also qualifies him to declare absolutely which theories are objectively “correct” or “true”, on the basis of their author’s “genius”, with no reference to current scientific understanding an......more