A Most Dangerous Method

The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein

De: John Kerr

Narrado por: Peter Berkrot

A movie starring Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, and Michael Fassbender! In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. In between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself. Drawing on years of research (and a cache of recently discovered documents), this mesmerizing audiobook reconstructs the fatal triangle of Freud, Jung, and Spielrein. It encompasses clinical method and politics, hysteria and anti-Semitism, sexual duplicity and intellectual brilliance wielded as blackmail. Learned, humane, and impossible to put down, A Most Dangerous Method is intellectual history with the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy.

©1993 John Kerr. All rights reserved. (P)2011 AudioGo

Sabina Spielrein

This book is by no means an easy listen. It took me two times to finally understand ~70% of the content. But I kept going because of Sabina Spielrein and how brilliant she was, and how this author gave her the respect she deserved!

Very Disappointed

Don't waste your credit!!! This story is impossiable to follow. I could not bring myself to finish.

Tedious

What disappointed you about A Most Dangerous Method?

The endless recitation of psychological theories. The plot was constantly interrupted and I gave up in frustration.

Has A Most Dangerous Method turned you off from other books in this genre?

No

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

It made me want to learn more about this story. Hope there is a better book out there.

Any additional comments?

This is the kind of non-fiction writing that gives non-fiction a bad name.