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3.0 out of 5 stars
mixed blessing, November 3, 2003
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This review is from: How Freud Worked (Hardcover)
Roazen interviewed Freud's surviving patients and asked them how their analyses had gone. The results are interesting, but prove only that Freud was not as orthodox in practice as is believed. Roazen demonstrates a limited insight into psychoanalysis--he gets the facts right and the rest often wrong--and his comments verge at times on being unconsciously naive. He is obsessed with certain issues, such as Freud's analysis of Anna, that are already widely known. Roazen's worst flaw is his writing style. He puts about every tenth word in quotation "marks," and after a short while this becomes extremely "annoying." This book needed a good editor. However, it provides some valuable trivia on the master.
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