A fascinating and dramatic account of a controversial figure in twentieth-century psychiatry In this "dazzling and provocative" (
Publishers Weekly) biography, Gail
Hornstein brings back to life the
maverick psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann.
To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World tells the extraordinary life story of the German-Jewish refugee analyst who accomplished what Freud and almost everyone else thought impossible: she successfully treated schizophrenics and other seriously disturbed mental patients with intensive psychotherapy, rather than medication, lobotomy, or shock treatment. Written with unprecedented access to a rich archive of clinical materials and newly discovered records and documents from across Europe and the United States, Hornstein's meticulous and "delightfully lucid" (
Kirkus Reviews) biography definitively reclaims the life of Fromm-Reichmann. The therapist at the core of Joanne Greenberg's
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is also the analyst who had an affair with, and later married, her patient Erich Fromm. A pioneer in her field, she made history as the pivotal figure of the unique and legendary mental hospital, Chestnut Lodge..
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