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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

by Janet Malcolm · 1977

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Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green, " a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.

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adult
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short · 184 pages

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