Full Description
Freud was addicted to cocaine and nicotine, Jung was psychotic for several years, and Margaret Mead remained closeted throughout her lifetime. Yet, adversities notwithstanding, they all made monumental contributions that still shape our view on ourselves and the world. This book includes biographies of fifteen modern explorers of the mind who altered the course of history. All of them were wounded healers who made great discoveries while struggling with traumatic life crises and emotional problems in their personal lives. Full of unexpected twists and turns, their life stories alone are worthy of our attention. In linking their maladies with their creativity, showing the vulnerable and human side of these giants, this book makes the greats approachable and illuminates their scientific findings through narrating their life stories.
Contents
Introduction; Part I. Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: 1. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar: Sigmund Freud's addiction problems; 2. The most dangerous method: entanglements between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud; 3. Cain and Abel are among us: Alfred W. Adler's path toward 'individual psychology'; 4. Fear of death and trauma of birth: Otto Rank's tragic saga; 5. From character analysis to cloud busting: Wilhelm Reich the lonely prophet; 6. Ernest Jones: Sigmund Freud's wizard; 7. Estranged brilliance: Melanie Klein's legacy; 8. When Freud found Tiffany: birth of child psychoanalysis; 9. Phoenix rising from the ashes: Viktor Frankl and the origin of logotherapy; Part II. From Sea to Shining Sea: 10. Rose garden revisited: miracles of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Joanne Greenberg; 11. The 'queer' genius that shaped American psychiatry: who is Harry Stack Sullivan?; 12. Anthropologists in a daughter's eye: the amazing coming together of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; 13. Gandhi is Gandhi, Luther is Luther: how did Erik the Vagabond become Erikson the Guru?; 14. 'My voice will go with you': how Milton Erickson salvaged hypnosis; 15. 'Where are your consciousness, emotion and free will?': William James, father of American psychology; Conclusion.
