First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance

At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as the bodies of the soldiers returning from the battlefield, caused him to rethink his stance and subsequently affected his theory: Psychoanalysis, a healing science, could tell us much about both the drive for war and the ways to undo the trauma that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041599649X
• ISBN13: 9780415996495
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"