The Memoirs of Margaret S. Mahler - Hardcover

Mahler, Margaret S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029312604 ISBN 13: 9780029312605

Publisher: Free Pr, 1988

Synopsis

An influential psychoanalyst recounts her childhood in Hungary, her days as a student and physician, her impressions of colleagues and teachers, and her work in child psychology

About this title

About the Author:

Paul E. Stepansky received his doctorate in European intellectual history from Yale University, where he was named the first Kanzer Foundation Fellow for Psychoanalytic Studies in the Humanities.  One of the foremost psychoanalytic editors in the country, he served as the Managing Director of Analytic Press until 2006.  He is the author of numerous books on Sigmund Freud as well as The Memoirs of Margaret S. Mahler. 

From Publishers Weekly:

More than any other child psychoanalyst, Mahler, who died in 1985, showed that a child's sense of identity is a hard-won achievement. She not only mapped the distinct stages in the toddler's separation from the nurturing mother but also explored the damage that could result if this natural sequence failed to unfold. Assembled from interviews, this posthumous memoir contains bitingly candid portraits: Helen Deutsch, Mahler's training analyst, is characterized as a spiteful, malicious empress full of condescension; Anna Freud hardly fares better; and Austrian clinician August Aichhorn (Mahler was his pupil and lover) used her as a tool in his war against the Viennese psychoanalytical establishment. Hungarian-born Mahler left Freud's Vienna in the 1930s and settled in New York where she convinced a skeptical psychiatric establishment that children can become deeply disturbed, to the point of psychosis. Stepansky is a psychiatric researcher at Cornell University Medical College.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Free Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0029312604
• ISBN 13: 9780029312605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179