To accompany my husband’s recently published autobiography A Psychiatrist’s Journey, I’ve posted a list of loosely related books on the website formerly known as Shepherd, now called BookDNA.
Of course I had to include the classic biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones. This is an admirable work but so long that neither Brian or I ever got through it. In the section of his autobiography that describes his sea voyage from New Zealand to England, where he was to begin psychiatric training at the Maudsley Hospital in London, Brian wrote: “I took Ernest Jones’ three volume biography of Freud, thinking it an appropriate introduction to psychoanalysis. I started to read it several times but could not get far before I started to yawn.”
To see the other books I selected – all of which I did read and enjoy, though they might not be ones that Brian would have chosen – please click here:
https://bookdna.com/best-books/historical-psychiatric-biographies
Jennifer Barraclough 