Psychoanalytic Memoirs

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freuds mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutschs Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bions War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khans The Long Wait, Sophie Freuds Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yaloms A Matter of Death and Life. Offering in each chapter a brief character sketch of the memoirist, the book shows how personal writing fits into their other work, often demonstrating the continuities and discontinuities in an authors life as well as discussing each authors contributions to psychoanalysis, whether positive or negative.