It is more than 50 years since the death of Freud, and, says medical
historian Edward Shorter in his History of Psychiatry (Wiley, £19.99, ISBN
0 471 15749), high time for a modern reinterpretation of the popular view that
psychoanalysis marks the final chapter in the story of psychiatry. Shorter’s
exhaustive study is not an easy read, but it’s certainly a challenging one.
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