Freud's Free Clinics - by Elizabeth Ann Danto (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>After World War I, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Erik Erikson, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, Helene Deutsch, and other psychoanalysts created a network of free outpatient clinics and pioneered important innovations in psychoanalytic treatment and method. In this book, Elizabeth Ann Danto narrates how these psychoanalysts implemented their social activism and their commitment to treating the poor and working classes. She explores the successes and challenges faced by the Berlin Poliklinik, the Vienna Ambulatorium, Alfred Adler's child guidance clinics, and Wilhelm Reich's Sex-Pol, which provided free community-based counseling and sex education and aimed to end public repression of sexuality.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>After World War I, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Erik Erikson, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, Helene Deutsch, and other psychoanalysts created a network of free outpatient clinics and pioneered important innovations in psychoanalytic treatment and method. In this book, Elizabeth Ann Danto narrates how these psychoanalysts implemented their social activism and their commitment to treating the poor and working classes. She explores the successes and challenges faced by the Berlin Poliklinik, the Vienna Ambulatorium, Alfred Adler's child guidance clinics, and Wilhelm Reich's Sex-Pol, which provided free community-based counseling and sex education and aimed to end public repression of sexuality.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A book that could stimulate inquiry about the way psychoanalysis addresses the social world, and its own place within it, to the benefit of the field.--International Journal of Psychoanalysis<br><br>A crucial corrective to the view of psychoanalysis as politically inert and socially disengaged.--Choice<br><br>A dramatic story elegantly told by Danto who has written a compelling, engaging and fascinating account of a largely under-researched aspect of the history of psychoanalysis. With great flair she captures the spirit and ethos of a time when psychoanalysts were committed to a sense of civic responsibility.--Social History of Medicine<br><br>A must read for anyone interested in psychoanalysis and progressive social responsibility.--Psychologist-Psychoanalyst<br><br>Historians and readers with a grasp of psychoanalysis will discover a gold mine. Essential for academic collections in psychology and modern European history.--Library Journal<br><br><i>Freud's Free Clinics</i> makes a worthwhile contribution to the historiography of psychoanalysis.--Greg Eghigian "H-Ideas "<br><br>[Danto's] meticulous research and awesome grasp of the movement's early days... give a surprisingly nimble account.--Nathan Deuel "Village Voice "<br><br>A book that deserves to be more widely read.--Richard Ruth "The Maryland Psychologist "<br><br>A welcome addition to the literature.--Eric J. Engstrom "H-Net "<br><br>A worthwhile and gripping story.--Leslie Leighninger "Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "<br><br>Danto's book is inspiring in highlighting how a generation of analysts sought to grasp the sources of human misery.--Ritchie Robertson "Times Literary Supplement "<br><br>Danto's meticulously researched year-by-year account of the spread of these psychoanalytic clinics focuses on Freud's pioneering, idealistic, socially committed side.--Christopher Turner "London Review of Books "<br><br>Danto's portrait of psychoanalysis between the two world wars does us a great service... We have much to learn from these pioneers, and Elizabeth Ann Danto deserves our thanks for bringing their efforts to our attention.--Paul M. Brinich "PsycCRITIQUES "<br><br>Danto's work will take its place as a classic work in the history of psychoanalytic thought.--William Borden "Psychoanalytic Social Work "<br><br>Interesting and challenging reading for the question of the social impact of psychoanalysis.--W. W. Meissner, S.J., M.D. "Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Elizabeth Ann Danto is associate professor and chair of the Foundations of Practice at Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York.
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