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Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst

door Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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He was the rising star of psychoanalysis, an intimate associate of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, a member of the Freudian “inner circle” with unrestricted access to the Freud Archives. And then Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson threw it all away because he dared to break the psychoanalytic community’s deepest taboo: he told the truth in public. As he unmasks the pretensions and abuses of this elite profession, Masson invites us to eavesdrop on the shockingly unorthodox analysis he was subjected to in the course of his analytic training. But the more prestige Masson attained, the more he came to doubt not only the integrity of his colleagues, but the validity of their method. In the end, he blew the whistle–fully aware of the personal and professional consequences.With wit, wonder, and unflinching candor, Masson brilliantly exposes the cult of psychoanalysis and recounts his own self-propelled fall from grace. A sensation when it first appeared,Final Analysisis even more provocative and engrossing today. Written with passion and humor, this is the book that revealed a revered profession for what it was–and launched Masson on his true career.From the Trade Paperback edition.… (meer)

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Fascinating story, and he's a good writer, if also somewhat self-serving and narcissistic (like many of his books). (

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lxydis | May 11, 2013 |

This is primarily an autobiographical account (slice)of Jeffrey Masson's intense life world during which he "dives" into the fascinating "reality" of psychoanalysis. While he himself undergoes analysis, at the same time, he is a candidate to become a psychotherapist with all of the accompanying "in-group" interactions of fellow therapist's egos. This narrative begins with Masson identifying himself as a professor of Sanskrit a university in Toronto, Canada. It is not until final "coda", of the book do we discover how he ended up in this academic position. In one short chapter, he sums up one of his first publications, My Father's Guru (an account of his childhood relationship with, what today is labeled "New Age" movements, but then was considered West Coast (California) cults(e.g., Theosophy, Yoga, Vedanta, etc.). Once I began reading this book, it was extremely difficult to put it down--a real "page-turner". (

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Here, the enfant terrible of the Freud Archives tells of his distempered and disillusioned encounter with psychoanalysis... in his memoir Dr. Masson dismembers many practices, shibboleths, and human icons of psychoanalysis with telling but Stereotypic ease. If Masson's acerbic testimony about his training, research, and experience within the psychoanalytic establishment is true and representative, then the house that Freud built is very sick indeed.

toegevoegd door danielx | bewerkThe New England Journal of Medicine, Michael Charney (Aug 19, 1991)

''Final Analysis'' may be one man's story, but it's a terrific story, full of passion, insight, wit and revelation. This messenger is worth listening to - for believers and nonbelievers alike.

toegevoegd door danielx | bewerkNew York Times, Carol Tavris (Aug 19, 1990)

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He was the rising star of psychoanalysis, an intimate associate of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, a member of the Freudian “inner circle” with unrestricted access to the Freud Archives. And then Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson threw it all away because he dared to break the psychoanalytic community’s deepest taboo: he told the truth in public. As he unmasks the pretensions and abuses of this elite profession, Masson invites us to eavesdrop on the shockingly unorthodox analysis he was subjected to in the course of his analytic training. But the more prestige Masson attained, the more he came to doubt not only the integrity of his colleagues, but the validity of their method. In the end, he blew the whistle–fully aware of the personal and professional consequences.With wit, wonder, and unflinching candor, Masson brilliantly exposes the cult of psychoanalysis and recounts his own self-propelled fall from grace. A sensation when it first appeared,Final Analysisis even more provocative and engrossing today. Written with passion and humor, this is the book that revealed a revered profession for what it was–and launched Masson on his true career.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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