The Washington Post, September 3rd, 1999
CASSANDRA'S DAUGHTER A History of Psychoanalysis By Joseph Schwartz Viking. 339 pp. $28.95 This is how odd this book is: After wading through one of the most tortuous first chapters (of anything, anywhere) it is possible to imagine; after reading harrowing accounts of how Henry A. Cotton, as superintendent of Trenton State Hospital, undertook to cure the mentally ill in his care by ordering the extraction of 10,000 of their teeth between 1919 and 1921; after reading through a gratuitous seven-page history of the Workers' Revolution and subsequent White Retaliation in Budapest during approxima...
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