Table of Contents

List of illustrations
2: Life and character
3: Exploring the past
4: Free association, dreams, and transference
5: Ego, super-ego, and id
6: Aggression, depression, and paranoia
7: Jokes and The Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life
8: Art and literature
9: Culture and religion
10: Freud as therapist
11: Psycho-analysis today
12: The appeal of psycho-analysis
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Anthony Storr qualified as a doctor in 1944. He subsequently specialized in psychiatry, trained as an analyst, and taught psychotherapy at Oxford. His books include The Integrity of the Personality (1960), The Dynamics of Creation (1972), Jung (1973), Solitude (1988), and Music and the Mind (1992). He is formerly Fellow of Green College, Oxford.

Reviews

`a model exercise in synthesis, and the final essay on the "appeal" of psychotherapy is especially neat.'
Independent