Freud: The Man, the Scientist and the Birth of Psychoanalysis

The fascinating story behind Studies on Hysteria, the groundbreaking book that launched Freud's career and created psychoanalysis

* First book to trace systematically the relationship between key American social theorists and Freud's psychoanalyitc ideas. * Focuses on key social theorists and schools widely studied at Universities inside and outside the US, including Parsons, Chicago sociology, and Goffman.

An insight into the world of science in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Europe, through the prism of Mary Shelley's seminal novel.