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A MOST DANGEROUS METHOD The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein A MOST In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be DANGEROUS METHOD both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud JOHN KERR before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself. Drawing on years of research (and a cache of recently discovered documents), this mesmerizing book reconstructs the fatal triangle of Freud, Jung, and Spielrein. It encompasses clinical method and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity, and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail. Learned, humane, and impossible to put down, A Most Dangerous Method is intellectual history with the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy. DANGEROUS METHOD DANGEROUS John Kerr was trained as a clinical psychologist at New York University. He The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein is an editor at The Analytic Press, a scholarly press specializing in works on psychoanalysis, and was co-editor and a contributor to Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. He divides his time between Boston and New York City. JOHN KERR A veteran of stage and screen, Peter Berkrot’s most iconic role is Angie D’nunzio in Caddyshack. Peter was the Director of Narration for the Emmy- nominated, The Truth About Cancer. He has voiced over 50 audiobook titles, A MOST winning an Earphones Award for Revolver by Marcus Sedgewick and has received sterling reviews for Toby and the Secrets of the Tree by Timotee de Fombelle and When The Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton, among others. Playing time: 22 hrs 46 min Copyright © 1993 by John Kerr. All rights reserved. Copyright P 2011 by AudioGO. All rights reserved. Copyright exists on all recordings issued by AudioGO. Any unauthorized broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording of such recordings in any manner whatsoever, will constitute an infringement of such copyright. Cover art © Sony Pictures Classics. Sound Library® is an imprint of AudioGO. SOUND LIBRARY® is a registered service mark of Chivers North America, Inc./AudioGO. ACTUAL SIZE 42 Whitecap Drive North Kingstown, RI 02852-7445 Unabridged Tel: 1-800-621-0182 [email protected] PLY www.audiogo.com 2431 15666 THE ALL-IN-ONE AUDIOBOOK WWW.PLAYAWAY.COM All rights reserved. Designed in Ohio. Made in China. PLAYAWAY® and associated logos are registered trademarks of Findaway World, LLC. 31999 Aurora Road, Solon, OH 44139 USA.

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