Analyst : A Daughter's Memoir by Alice Wexler (2022, Hardcover)

Name: Analyst : A Daughter's Memoir by Alice Wexler (2022, Hardcover)
Brand: Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press

The AnalystA Daughter's Memoir\nAuthor(s): Alice Wexler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231202787, 978-0231202787\nSynopsis\nMilton Wexler was among the most unconventional, compelling, and sometimes controversial figures of the golden age of psychoanalysis in America. From Teachers College at Columbia University to the Menninger Foundation in Topeka to the galleries and gilded hills of Hollywood, he traversed the country and the century, pursuing interests ranging from the treatment of schizophrenia to group therapy with artists to advocacy for research on Huntingtons disease. At a time when psychologists and psychoanalysts tended to promote adjustment to society, Wexler increasingly championed creativity and struggle.\n\nThe Analyst is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her fathers intense private life a.