Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

'Freuds Patients'

Bog | Engelsk

Everyone knows the characters described by Freud in his case histories: Dora, the Rat Man, the Wolf Man. But what do we know of the people, the lives behind these famous pseudonyms: Ida Bauer, Ernst Lanzer, Sergius Pankejeff? Do we know the circumstances

'Making Minds and Madness'

Bog | Engelsk

Why do 'maladies of the soul' such as hysteria, anxiety disorders, or depression wax and wane over time? Through a study of the history of psychiatry, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provocatively argues that most mental illnesses are not, in fact, diseases