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Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis
Paper, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12583-3
$31.50
/ £18.50
August, 2003
Cloth, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12582-6
$75.00
/ £44.00
"Powerful...Brickman has done psychoanalysis a powerful service here." — Stephen Frosh, Psychoanalytic Review
"Brickman has put together in a new way the often contradictory puzzle that we know as psychoanalysis. Brickman has made sense of it all. This book will change the way we read Freud." — Diane Jonte-Pace, Religious Studies Review
"Invaluable works that historians of science and medicine must digest." — Andrew M. Fearnley, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
"Brickman demonstrates an excellent understanding of the history of both anthropology and psychoanalysis." — William Wedenoja, Religion
"An intriguing study—the author is conversant with the nuances of psychoanalytic theory and the history of Freudian psychoanalysis, while also being deeply aware of historical anthropological writing on the topic of 'the primitive.'. . . The breadth and scope of the study is impressive, and the result is superior scholarship . . . highly original and intellectually exciting." — Gilbert Herdt, professor of anthropology and director of human sexuality studies and the National Sexuality Resource Center, San Francisco State University
"This very useful, clear, and thorough study surveys the texts and concepts needed to understand the ways in which nineteenth-century race thinking and racism . . . were imported from anthropology into psychoanalysis. This strong critique has revisionist implications not just for the theory and social theory of psychoanalysis, but for its clinical practice as well. Brickman has provided a good compass for this moment of psychoanalysis in search of its future." — Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research