Books by Phyllis Grosskurth and Complete Book Reviews
Phyllis Grosskurth, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (515p) ISBN 978-0-394-51342-3
Extensive research went into this informative and revealing first major biography of Klein, a pioneer of child psychoanalysis, whose theories, although generated from Freud's discoveries of the unconscious, produced considerable controversy in their
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Phyllis Grosskurth, Author Penguin Books $4.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-14-008760-4
A more controversial woman is hard to imagine: Mead retained her maiden name in the 1920s; married three times in search of a suitable partner to father a child; undertook a journey to Samoa to establish herself as an anthropologist; and later...
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Phyllis Grosskurth, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $40 (510p) ISBN 978-0-395-69379-7
A professor of humanities and psychoanalytic thought at the University of Toronto, Grosskurth's most recent books have been on psychoanalytic subjects (The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis and Melanie Klein)....
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