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The author is a psychiatrist. Readers of this book ought to know that a psychiatrist is not a psychoanalyst. For a psychiatrist to be a psychoanalyst, he must go through a thorough, and supervised psychoanalysis. So, therefore, the author has not lived through all of the phenomena that Freud wrote about, and is, thus, not really capable of criticizing Freud, in a technical way. Psychoanalysis is psychic surgery. But a surgeon does not have to go through surgery to perform it, but one has to live through a psychoanalysis to understand it thoroughly. Kramer's book lacks credibility on this account alone.
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Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind (Eminent Lives) by Peter D Kramer
jhsk4, February 14, 2007
The author is a psychiatrist. Readers of this book ought to know that a psychiatrist is not a psychoanalyst. For a psychiatrist to be a psychoanalyst, he must go through a thorough, and supervised psychoanalysis. So, therefore, the author has not lived through all of the phenomena that Freud wrote about, and is, thus, not really capable of criticizing Freud, in a technical way. Psychoanalysis is psychic surgery. But a surgeon does not have to go through surgery to perform it, but one has to live through a psychoanalysis to understand it thoroughly. Kramer's book lacks credibility on this account alone.(3 of 9 readers found this comment helpful)