Freud in Cambridge - Grand Format

"Freud in Cambridge is a monumental achievement of historical research and cultural exploration. John Forrester and Laura Cameron have mined an extraordinary range of archives, and have pieced together a series of compelling stories. I cannot praise too highly the meticulous detective work, vivid portraits, shrewd interpretations and rich contextualisation that this book offers. I have no doubt that it will establish itself as a classic in its field, and a fitting final work from the late, much missed John Forrester." Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck College, University of London, and British Psychoanalytical Society.
"Freud in Cambridge is an extraordinary and detailed account of an aspect of the British life of psychoanalysis little examined in intellectual history. Without a doubt, this is one of the most important books on twentieth-century British intellectual history I have read in a very long time." Professor Sander L. Gilman, author of Freud, Race, and Gender. "A truly amazing work that changes almost everything we thought we knew about how psychoanalysis came to the UK.
But it does far more than that, because it clarifies also how restricted heretofore was our grasp of what "psychoanalysis" exactly meant to its earliest, at once fascinated and conflicted, advocates and practitioners... Meanwhile, and all through, in its interstices the book contains a running and compelling argument about how we might best reconceive Freud's ultimate significance - not just despite but also precisely because of his inevitable flaws." Professor Dagmar Herzog, author of Sexuality in Europe : A Twentieth-Century History.
"In this wonderful book, John Forrester and Laura Cameron explore a forgotten moment in the impact of Freud's ideas in the UK, bringing to life widespread excitement about, and engagement with, psychoanalysis in Cambridge in the early twentieth century." Professor Liz Bondi, University of Edinburgh.