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• Preface(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 On Becoming a Psychoanalyst(p. 5)
• Chapter 2 The Worm of Analysis(p. 19)
• Chapter 3 Grand Rounds(p. 45)
• Chapter 4 The Worm Turns(p. 59)
• Chapter 5 The Men's Club(p. 87)
• Chapter 6 On Entering the Inner Circle(p. 113)
• Chapter 7 Illusions(p. 135)
• Chapter 8 Anna Freud and I(p. 149)
• Chapter 9 Disillusion(p. 181)
• Epilogue(p. 205)

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Library Journal Review

A former projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, Masson claims that he was fired for espousing and publicizing views concerning the sexual abuse of children that radically challenged psychoanalytic theories. Since then, he has been a thorn in the side of mental health professionals with his searing critiques of therapy. Here he abandons his formidable research skills for a personal glimpse into how, in his training and psychoanalytic career, he too became enmeshed in the mystique that psychoanalysis could cure unhappiness and that analysts were all wise and moral. Although Masson describes with great candor his wasted analysis, his rise in the elite inner circle, and his close ties with Kurt Eissler and Anna Freud, this is no autobiography but rather an attempt to knock psychoanalysis from its pedestal once and for all. Recommended.-- Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

In becoming a psychoanalyst, Masson, like Shakespeare's Malvoleo, mistook the trappings for the thing itself; that he never achieved the power he bestowed on such figures as Kurt Eissler and Anna Freud is his continuing complaint. He trained at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and, even before graduating in 1978, insinuated himself into the international psychoanalytic community. As projects director of the Freud Archives in London, he hypothesized that Freud had deliberately suppressed his seduction theory. Masson ( Against Therapy ) faults his teachers for not hewing to the principle of full disclosure (failing to note that part of the psychoanalytic equation requires hiddenness) yet rails against their discussion of analysands. Best to read is his affectionate account of his tyrannous training analysis; worst, his fawning over analysts with clout. Masson left the ``cult'' of psychoanalysis without developing his own practice; the disappointment and blame that propel this volume suggest the rage of a child at a parent's fallibility. He makes no mention of his much publicized, unsuccessful libel suit against Janet Malcolm for her 1983 New Yorker profile. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Masson's name is by now a household word--at least in psychological quarters. Highly controversial for his scathing attacks (in The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory and in several other books, on some of Freud's basic tenets underpinning psycho~analysis), Masson sticks to his guns in condemning the whole practice of psychoanalysis--and, by extension, psychotherapy--this time by holding up his own training analysis as an example of all that's wrong with the field, even going so far as to call orthodox Freudian psycho~analysis a "cult." While this impassioned autobiography lacks logical persuasiveness, based as it is on emotionalism and overgeneralization, its detailed, behind-the-scenes look at a process much hidden from public view fascinates. A revealing work--but not in the way the author intended--that reads like a novel and helps put Masson's earlier works into perspective. No index. ~--Mary Banas

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of "Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs"; "When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals"; "My Father's Guru: A Journey Through Spirituality & Disillusion"; "Final Analysis: The Making & Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst"; & "The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory", among other books. After receiving his undergraduate degree & a Ph.D. in Sanskrit & Indian Studies from Harvard University, he completed a full clinical training program in psychoanalysis at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute from 1970 to 1978. Masson served for one year as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives in London.

(Bowker Author Biography)