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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession | Janet Malcolm
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Through an intensive study of 'Aaron Green,' a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.
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#14booksin14weeks A bit behind this wk.Malcolm is expert of letting what she finds tell the story.Her talks with “Aaron Green” a pseudonym, pulls back the curtain from the therapists point of view. The talking cure has its limits , that maybe the most they can do is “transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness. “ may not be far off.How therapy often ends not at a breakthrough,but more mundane reasons.published in 1981 , Freudian

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Ever since the #NYRBbookclub read Malcom‘s In the Freud Archives , I seem to be finding Malcolm‘s or they keep finding me. Goodwill!

batsy Wow, nice find! Love the serendipity. This is one I really want to read. 11mo
Leftcoastzen @batsy Serendipity one of my favorite things , I need to go slow enough to let it happen!😃 11mo
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