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On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud / Nathan Kravis. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)ISBN:
  • 9780262341639 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud.DDC classification:
  • 616.89/17 23
LOC classification:
  • RC506 .K73 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis? -- Symposion and convivium -- The evolution of the couch and the rise of the sofa -- Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression -- The medicalization of comfort -- Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and therapeutics -- Freud's couch -- The analyst's moral interior -- Whence? whither? whether?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis? -- Symposion and convivium -- The evolution of the couch and the rise of the sofa -- Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression -- The medicalization of comfort -- Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and therapeutics -- Freud's couch -- The analyst's moral interior -- Whence? whither? whether?

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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