Part one: Sigmund the unready -- Between identities -- Getting by -- Forsaking all others -- Part two: The first temptation -- White magic -- A friend in need -- The wrong discoverer -- Expert judgments -- The survivor -- Exit, pursued -- Part three: Blind submission -- A French connection -- The travesty -- Attachment therapy -- In dubious battle -- Part four: Playing doctor -- Medicine man -- Tending to goldfish -- Lessons taken and applied -- Traumas on demand -- Part five: His turn to shine -- Now or never -- The founding deception -- Adjusting the record -- Narrative truth -- Arraying the neuroses -- Part six: Off the deep end -- The secret sharer -- The Freudian neuron -- Diminished capacity -- Dire therapy -- Self-seduced -- The breakthrough that wasn't -- The labyrinth of reproaches -- Part seven: Little big man -- Wishing makes it so -- Sexual healing -- The unborn avenger -- Girl trouble -- A law unto himself -- Imposing his will -- Appendix: Are we being Freudian yet?
Summary:
Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin, but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a great volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who in fact never cured anyone, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise.
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