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Kravis, Nathan, author.

Title On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud / Nathan Kravis.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]
	2017

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis? -- Symposion and convivium -- The evolution of the couch and the rise of the sofa -- Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression -- The medicalization of comfort -- Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and therapeutics -- Freud's couch -- The analyst's moral interior -- Whence? whither? whether?
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Psychoanalysis -- History.
	Psychotherapist and patient.
	Furniture -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Kravis, Nathan. On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017] xvi, 204 pages ; 24 cm 9780262036610 (DNLM)101696190
ISBN	9780262036610 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	0262036614 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780262341639 (e-book)