Freud, Surgery, and the Surgeons


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In this excursion into medical and psychoanalytic history, Paul E. Stepansky charts the rise and fall of the "surgical metaphor"--Freud's view of psychoanalysis as analogous to a surgical procedure. Approaching Freud's understanding of surgery and surgeons historically and biographically, Stepansky draws the reader into the world of late nineteenth-century "heroic surgery," a world into which Sigmund Freud himself was drawn. --From publisher's description










Dr Freud


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Ferris' biography of Freud is fully explored and up-to-date, aimed at the lay reader. Not written from within the world of psychoanalysis, nor to support a polemical case, this is a traditional biography written with pace and style.




Fifty Years a Surgeon


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"This book presents in an autobiographic manner the experiences of one surgeon during the past fifty years--the most eventful half-century of surgical history. [It] is aimed to interest the younger medical generation, internes and medical students, and to give the public an insight into the intimate problems of physicians and surgeons of today." -from Introduction.




The Psychological Experience of Surgery


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This volume explores the psychodynamic issues raised by different kinds of surgery, and how a patient's experience of surgery is influenced by the physical, cultural, and even mythic meanings of the body organ operated on. The chapters look at the psychological implications of, and emotional reactions to, most types of major surgery. Understanding of these issues, by the psychiatrist, the clinical psychologist, the surgeon, and nurse, can mean the difference between recovery and illness, health and chronic invalidism, and even life and death. The last chapter discusses the use of short term therapy to help the patient adjust to the trauma of surgery.







The Unwelcome Intruder


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Psychoanalytiker / Oesterreich.




A Surgeon Looks at Life


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The Scalpel's Edge


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With unprecedented access to the culture of surgeons--this book describes in detail what surgeons actually do in and out of the operating room, this book reveals how they think about disease, patients, and other physicians; how their thinking is often non-scientific; how they make decisions; and how they keep secrets from patients and colleagues.