{"product_id":"the-analyst-9780231202787","title":"The Analyst","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Analyst\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her father’s intense private life and explores how his life and work illuminate the broader reaches of Freudian ideas in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn astute inquiry into both the life of her father, an accomplished Freudian psychoanalyst, and the author’s own memories, Alice Wexler’s biographical memoir is almost impossible to put down. Ceaselessly fascinating, the story offers rare insight into the mid-twentieth-century clinical practice of “talk therapy,” especially Milton Wexler’s uncommon focus on schizophrenia and his unusually close relationships with clients. With access to an amazing array of sources, including her father’s letters and her own diaries, Alice Wexler fearlessly explores his other passion, his advocacy for research into Huntington’s disease, which took his ex-wife and shaped the lives of their two potentially vulnerable daughters. A skilled biographer, Alice Wexler tells a thoroughly compelling story covering nearly a century of her father’s long and accomplished life. -- Mari Jo Buhle, author of \u003ci\u003eFeminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this memoir of her father, one of LA’s most prominent analysts, the historian Alice Wexler gives us a revealing and vivid portrait of a time when psychotherapy loomed large in America. Poignant, engrossing, and very smart! -- Alice Echols, author of \u003ci\u003eDaring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving the history of her family into a courageous story, Alice Wexler captures her father’s efforts to find a path through psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the years following World War II. The result is a heart-rending tale that reveals how one family coped with personal loss in the face of dramatic cultural transformation. This is history and biography at its best. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, author of \u003ci\u003eA Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis eloquent, tender, and piercing portrait of a father by his daughter offers an intimate perspective on a family profoundly affected by a devastating hereditary condition and a front-row seat to the fraught and kaleidoscopic history of psychotherapy across the twentieth century. -- Alexandra Minna Stern, associate dean for the humanities and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor\u003cbr\u003eA probing biography of her father, psychoanalyst Milton Wexler… Wexler’s keen reflections make for a powerful portrait. Readers interested in the history of psychoanalysis will want to check this out. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e1. On the Road to Topeka\u003cbr\u003e2. Out of Brooklyn\u003cbr\u003e3. Becoming Freudian\u003cbr\u003e4. The Slap, Explained\u003cbr\u003e5. Ex-Topekan\u003cbr\u003e6. Losing the Road Map\u003cbr\u003e7. Freudian Fathers and (Proto-) Feminist Daughters\u003cbr\u003e8. Revelations\u003cbr\u003e9. The Big Freedom\u003cbr\u003e10. (A) Challenging Fate\u003cbr\u003e11. Workshops of the Possible\u003cbr\u003e12. Making Friends, Making Love\u003cbr\u003e13. Retelling Lives\u003cbr\u003e14. Life Underwater\u003cbr\u003e15. The Old Leaf\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Sayings of Milton Wexler\u003cbr\u003ePublished Papers and Reviews by Milton Wexler\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400362860887,"sku":"9780231202787","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231202787.jpg?v=1730470498","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-analyst-9780231202787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}