The Wolfman and Other Cases

Author

Sigmund Freud

Original Works

Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (Ratman)·From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (Wolf Man)·Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia·Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work·Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy ("Little Hans")

Translator

Louise Adey Huish

Foreword / Afterword

Gillian Beer

Format

Collection / Anthology

Language

English

Year

2003

Publisher

Penguin

Country

United Kingdom

Pages

384

ISBN

978-0142437452

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When a disturbed young Russian man came to Freud for treatment, the analysis of his childhood neuroses—most notably a dream about wolves outside his bedroom window—eventually revealed a deep-seated trauma. It took more than four years to treat him, and "The Wolfman" became one of Freud's most famous cases. This volume also contains the case histories of a boy's fear of horses and the Ratman's violent fear of rats, as well as the essay "Some Character Types," in which Freud draws on the work of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Nietzsche to demonstrate different kinds of resistance to therapy. Above all, the case histories show us Freud at work, in his own words.— Google Books