Three Case Histories

by Sigmund Freud

Book Overview

Notes upon a case of obessional neurosis (1909)
Pscyhoanalytic notes upon an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia (dementia paranoides) (1911)
From the history of an infantile neurosis (1918)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684829452
• ISBN13: 9780684829456
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A must-read classic

This book should be required reading in all high schools. For me it was an epiphany. Especially the Wolf Man case history. The book was written in clear language with no psychobabble or medical jargon. Here are some interesting things to be found in the book: 1: OCD symptoms actually represent repressed wishes to commit murder. 2: There is such a thing as a reverse Oedipus complex where a boy wants to identify with his mother and love his father. 3: The essential nature of psychosis is a regression to pure self-love. 4: Vladimir Nabokov based his book "Lolita" on a section of the "Rat Man" case history. 5: Peter Schaffer based his play *EQUUS* on "Wolf Man."

Three Case Histories by Sigmund Freud

Outstanding volume. Well worth the price, for those with an interest in the scientific-analytical work of the father of modern psychology.