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Author:   Gabriel Brownstein
Publisher:   PublicAffairs,U.S.
Imprint:   PublicAffairs,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781541774643

ISBN 10:   1541774647
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"""[A] riveting look at the boundaries between neurology and psychology and the gender dynamics of medicine. This captivates.""--Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim braids its fascinating stories together seamlessly. This is a very important contribution to the Pappenheim/Freud literature and to helping people with FND today. I found the book absolutely riveting.""--Marion A. Kaplan, Professor Emerita of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University ""Brownstein's wonderful book is part intellectual history, part scientific inquiry, and reads like a detective novel. The mystery concerns Freud's most famous patient, and the wildly satisfying twist is that our most fundamental ideas about the human mind grow out of this very case.""--Joe Weisberg, creator of ""The Patient"" and ""The Americans"" ""I adored this book. Out of a writer's encounter with his dying psychoanalyst father flashes a revelatory Anna O. who, despite a century's efforts to erase her real life, leaps through a told and retold history -- passionate women as mere lab specimens, a circle of brilliant but flawed men, a moment in Vienna. Exhilarating.""--Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter ""This is a work of courageous and compassionate reexamination of a Jewish feminist icon who deserves to be much better known. Brownstein excavates trauma and grief, mind and brain, silencing and ""the talking cure,"" and moves us with his portrait of Bertha Pappenheim, her passion and her purpose.""--Anya Kamenetz, author of The Stolen Year ""With the heart-racing pace of a novel, Brownstein creates a moving portrait of Bertha Pappenheim as he gives her a voice, a heart, and a soul.""--Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane ""In his much-anticipated book, Gabriel Brownstein excavates Bertha Pappenheim's life, finally telling the full story of this extraordinary feminist whose work continues to impact countless patients today.""--Lilith Magazine"

"""[A] riveting look at the boundaries between neurology and psychology and the gender dynamics of medicine. This captivates."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review ""In his much-anticipated book, Gabriel Brownstein excavates Bertha Pappenheim's life, finally telling the full story of this extraordinary feminist whose work continues to impact countless patients today.""--Lilith Magazine"

Author Information

Gabriel Brownstein is an associate professor of English at St. John's College. His short stories have been published in The Harvard Review, Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All Story, and Glimmer Train. He won the PEN/Hemingway Award for his collection of stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt 3W, and his 2005 novel The Man from Beyond was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.

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