Offering a fresh analysis of how Freud practiced psychoanalysis which has profound implications for practice today, the authors draw from the existing full-length accounts written by patients who were treated by Freud in the 1920s and 1930s. Presented together for the first time as detailed case studies, these vivid, intimate biographies of the analytic process reveal an unexpected Freud. Quite different from the current stereotype of the Freudian analyst, Freud is depicted as an organized, persistent, personally engaged, and expressive clinician. Demonstrating how Freud s use of free...