Major essays in Volume 1 include Peter Swales's historical study of Anna von Lieben, the "Frau Cacilie M" of Breuer and Freud's Studies on Hysteria; Edwin Wallace's reconsideration of Freud as an ethicist; and Barry Silverstein's inquiry into Freu
In the first intellectual biography of Alfred Adler, Stepansky amasses a wealth of little-known, untranslated source materials in critically elucidating Adler's ideas as socialist, physician, psychiatrist, educator, and social critic. His interpretive re