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01-04-2018 | Book Review

On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud

By Nathan Kravis. MIT Press, 2017. LCCN 2016052900. ISBN: 9780262036610

Author: Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 2/2018

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Sit back, or should I say, recline, with your copy of On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud by Nathan Kravis (2017). Kravis wears many hats penning this work, as psychoanalyst, art historian, Freud biographer, cultural critic and furniture connoisseur. He shepherds us through the history of reclining and of the couch itself, and how troubled psyches came to lay their heads comfortably on their analysts’ couches millennia later. And throughout, he breathes life into the themes of luxury, social intimacy, and healing through his carefully selected commentary and images. On the Couch allows the reader to reflect more broadly on how history, culture, and bodily ritual shape the modern doctor–patient encounter. …

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Title: On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud
By Nathan Kravis. MIT Press, 2017. LCCN 2016052900. ISBN: 9780262036610
Author: Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach
Publication date: 01-04-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0579-1

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On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud

By Nathan Kravis. MIT Press, 2017. LCCN 2016052900. ISBN: 9780262036610

Excerpt

At a glance: The STEP trials

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