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Lucy Freeman

    January 1, 1916 – January 1, 2004

    Lucy Freeman was a reporter and author who focused on psychiatry and mental health. Her works, ranging from detailed studies of Freud to essays on the sources of anger and anxiety, helped familiarize a popular audience with subjects that had long been taboo. She chronicled her own experiences with psychoanalysis in a book that became a bestseller and remained in print for decades. Freeman's writing broke the silence around psychotherapy, making it accessible to the public.

    Verrückte Fantasien
    Der Traum
    Der Psychiater sagt Mord
    Belle
    A Prophet Operating at a Loss
    Betrayal
    • 2001

      A Prophet Operating at a Loss

      • 220 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      This is the tragedy and triumph of the Bonds, one of the more influential families in America today. My dad played int "A Streetcar Named Desire." My brother Jonathan is president and co-founder of the hip Kirshenbaum and Bond Advertising agency. My ma is a noted psychoanalyst and author of many books. My sister Janet is gettingher Ph.D. in exercise physiology and nutrition. I instigated a bill before Congress tht proposed a change in our coinage. The story pivots around me, Zane Bond, and my life and death struggle for survival.

      A Prophet Operating at a Loss
    • 2001

      Belle

      A Biography of Belle Case La Follette

      • 284 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      A devoted boyhood admirer of Fighting Bob LaFollette, I've become, since reading this marvelous memoir, a grey-haired admirer of Belle.-- Studs Terkel "Before the Kennedys, before the Roosevelts, there was another great and determined liberal family. Among its members was Belle Case LaFollette, wife of Robert LaFollette, Sr., and a true pioneer on everything from woman's suffrage to worker's rights to keeping the warriors at bay. I enjoyed the book immensely and learned much."-- John Kenneth Galbraith

      Belle
    • 1977

      Betrayal

      The True Story Of The First Woman To Successfully Sue Her Psychiatrist For Using Sex In The Guise Of Therapy

      • 263 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      This is the true story of the first woman to successfully sue her psychiatrist for using sex in the guise of therapy. After Julie Roy's marriage was shattered, she got involved in a lesbian experience that added to her troubles. Julie, in despair, turned for help to Dr. Renatus Hartogs. As part of her therapy, the 60-year-old doctor induced the 31-year-old woman to enter into a strange sexual relationship with him. For a time Julie seemed to mend; then, abruptly, the doctor broke off the relationship. Her condition deteriorated gravely. She was hospitalized twice, and she needed extensive therapy from other doctors to enable her to rebuild her life.

      Betrayal