The Passions of the Mind

In the 1880's, Vienna was Europe's glamour capital. It was in that brilliant city that Sigmund Freud began his long struggle to free people everywhere from the blindfolds and chains of their unknown natures. The Passions of the Mind is the story of an extraordinary man who proved that some of the most exciting challenges are not met on the battlefield or on mountain peaks, but inside the hearts and minds of individuals. The story is told with great attention to accuracy. His research is recounted as meticulously as in a biography, though it is fictionalized to allow readers understanding of feelings and thought processes. Freud was one of Vienna's most distinguished neurologists. He gave up a life of respectable affluence to become a daring researcher of uncharted seas in an effort to change forever our understanding of human motivations. He was a pioneer explorer of the dark frontiers of the sexual nature of humans, for which he was made a pariah. Includes Glossary and Bibliography. "This book involved six years of uninterrupted research and writing, yet the road was lighted at every turn, by the kindness and the generosity of almost everyone who had known Sigmund Freud or worked with him." - Irving Stone.