Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis

A portrait of the brilliant and flawed analyst who was Sigmund Freud's colleague, impresario, biographer—and who rescued him from the Nazis.

The saturation of the English-speaking world with psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud's disciple, he led the international psychoanalytic movement, shifting its vortex from Vienna to London and spreading its influence to Toronto, New York, and Boston.

While negotiating the ferocious politics of the mov...