The recent upsurge of fresh historical research concerning the early years of psychoanalysis has left many professional readers struggling to keep abreast of the latest findings and more than a little perplexed as to what it all adds up to. Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis addresses this state of affairs by providing in a single volume original essays by fourteen leading historians of psychoanalysis and philosophers of science; it is the most impressive collection of contemporary Freud scholarship yet to appear in print.

Preface - Toby Gelfand Freud's Parental Identifications as a Source of Some Contradictions Within Psychoanalysis - Robert R. Holt Sigmund-sur-Seine: Fathers and Brothers in Charcot's Paris - Toby Gelfand The Two Medical Worlds of Sigmund Freud - Edward Shorter Freud and the Force of History - William J. McGrath The Sources of Freud's Methods for Gathering and Evaluating Clinical Data - Malcolm Macmillan Reassessing Freud's Case Histories: The Social Construction of Psychoanalysis - Frank J. Sulloway Two Major Difficulties for Freud's Theory of Dreams - Adolf Grunbaum Pre-Freudian Discover of Dream Meaning: The Achievements of Charcot, Janet, and Krafft-Ebing - Rosemarie Sand Freud and the Mind-Body Problem - Edwin R. Wallace, IV Freud's "Dora" Case in Perspectives: The Medical Treatment of Hysteria in Austria at the Turn of the Century - Hannah S. Decker Freud's Patients: First-Person Accounts - Paul Roazen Freud as Family Therapist: Reflections - Patrick Mahony A Case History Before Freud: Intimations of the Unconscious in Wadsworth - Steven Marcus The Idyll in the Harz Mountains: Freud's Secret Committee - Phyllis Grosskurth Epilogue: History and the Clinician - John Kerr