Synopses & Reviews
In this marvelously researched and moving biography closely grounded in Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's work, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist who accomplished what Freud and almost everyone else thought impossible: successfully treating schizophrenics and other seriously disturbed mental patients with intensive psychotherapy, not lobotomy, shock treatment, or drugs.
To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World tells the extraordinary life story of the German-Jewish refugee analyst, who was the first wife of Erich Fromm. Written with unprecedented access to a rich archive of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's clinical work at the legendary Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, and using newly discovered family records and documents from across Europe and the United States, this is the definitive biography of a remarkable woman.
Best known to millions as the courageous therapist in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenberg's bestselling chronicle of madness and recovery, Fromm-Reichmann (1889-1957) is a fascinating and controversial figure in twentieth-century psychiatry. To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World traces the story of her life and education, from a loving childhood as the eldest of three daughters in an Orthodox Jewish family to medical school at seventeen, as one of the first women admitted to study at a Prussian university.
During World War I, Fromm-Reichmann took charge of a military hospital in K
Synopsis
Using newly discovered family records and a rich archive of tape-recorded sessions with patients, Hornstein pens the first biography of the maverick therapist who inspired the bestselling "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden". of photos.
About the Author
Gail A. Hornstein, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College and director of the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. She lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
Contents PROLOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 The Daughter
2 The Student
3 The Psychiatrist
4 The Woman and the Jew
5 The Exile
6 Asylum
7 Improvising Method
8 Creating Chestnut Lodge
9 Joanne Greenberg
10 The Unredeemed
11 The Luxury of Guilt
12 Public Acclaim
13 Private Decline
14 Rose Garden
EPILOGUE: THE AMBIGUITY OF HOPE
NOTES
WORKS OF FRIEDA FROMM-REICHMANN
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS