Rolnik is a breath of fresh air in psychoanalytic historiography: he
steers a middle course between the official story and revisionism to give us a story
that is alive and pulsing with passion and that holds the reader’s interest
from beginning to end. Moreover, the sweep of Rolnik’s scholarship,
based on archival materials presented for the first time, does not stop at
Zion. It is also a history of the evolution of psychoanalysis in Austria,
Britain, Hungary, Russia, Switzerland, Holland, and America.
Read full Review>>by Zvi Lothan
In his attentiveness to the
development of theories and the dynamics of fantasy in individuals and
groups, within the context of the turbulent events of the twentieth century,
Rolnik has given us a genuinely psychoanalytic history.
Read full Review by Ann Golomb Hoffman>>