Cultural historian Zaretsky charts the successes and shortcomings of psychoanalysis, from its late-Victorian era beginnings to today's age of psychopharmacology. He closely examines the divergent schools in the psychoanalytic community and how they evolved. From Freud to Zoloft, here is the story of what may be the most intimate science of all. Expansive and authoritative. Zaretsky charts the many shifts in Freud's thinking over the course of his long creative life.' - The Washington Post Book World'
