Sigmund Freud
Prescribing Hope: How Willpower Became a Cure
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Sigmund Freud, a key link in the history of mind-body medicine.
THE CURE WITHIN: A HISTORY OF MIND-BODY MEDICINE
By Anne Harrington
W.W. Norton, 336 pages, $25.95
In the late 1980’s, two oncologists tested a chemotherapy drug called EPHO. One doctor’s patients did surprisingly well; three-quarters of them responded to treatment. But only one-quarter of the other doctor’s patients showed improvement. Why the disparity? The first doctor explained that he had rearranged the acronym EPHO to spell HOPE. Optimism, it would seem, is a potent drug. read more »
Freud’s Operatic Escape—and Wacky Theories
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Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna, arriving in Paris in 1938, after the Anschluss.
“Vienna,” the first of the two narrative essays that make up Marc Edmundson’s meditation on the late life and thought of Sigmund Freud, is a tale worthy of a libretto. read more »
Three Worlds, One Book: Rieff Tries to Explain It All
The form in which we most often encounter sociology is David Brooks or Malcolm Gladwell, taking us o read more »
Downloading Dickens: Inevitable, or a Fantasy?
I just got the page proofs of my latest book, my eighth. Will it also be my last? read more »
Big Ego, Big Business, And the Vision Thing
The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership , by Michael Maccoby. read more »
It's a Nightmare! Kafka Show Scary But Missing Nuance
There was a time when it could rightly have been said of the Czech writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) wh read more »
The Fifteen-Day Week
Wednesday 19thGranger goes grunge? read more »
Meet the Excellent and Wise Mr. K., Manservant to Lawyer Richard Golub
The man in the vivid purple turban padded silently down the stairs of the East 64th Street town hous read more »
Even in Elephant Dung There Is Beauty
The artist Chris Ofili has aroused the indignation of theMayor of New York, or at least has provided read more »
New Sigmund Freud Show Attracts Old Crowd
When is someone going to write a candid history–it would probably have to be an oral history–of read more »
The Phyllis Stine Diaries: Phyllis Meets Freud
Dear Diary:April 26: C'est moi, c'est moi , Phyllis Stine. Sorry I haven't written lately. read more »
Saving Clinton's Privates
Now listen up out there, because I am only going to say this once. I want to make it perfectly clear read more »
Blimey! Freud Scorned Again; Nary a Well-Connected Charity
"I didn't intend to write a book that would upset Lucian Freud," said Matthew Collings, author of Bl read more »
MoMA Revives Schiele,A Sentimental Brute;End-of-the-Century Museum Trend:Revive the Failures of the Past
First it was Weimar, then Vienna. read more »
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