title: Understanding Dissidence and Controversy in the History of Psychoanalysis
author: Martin S. Bergmann
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zlib_text: Psychoanalysis in the Age of 
  Totalitarianism
  ‘This volume is unique in exploring what its editors call “the two-way traffic 
  between ideas of psychoanalysis and totalitarianism”. We recognize that, what-
  ever its focus on introspection, psychoanalysis is a social and political enterprise. 
  It thrived in postwar Germany because it had a subject, the immediate Nazi past, 
  and a heroic leader, Alexander Mitscherlich, who both interpreted the Nazi move-
  ment and lived out his opposition to it. We also learn how psychoanalysis can 
  succumb to its own dogmas and confusions. We emerge with many questions 
  about totalitarianism (“totalism” better serves us psychologically) but with a 
  deepened sense of psychoanalysis in the world.’– Professor Robert Jay Lifton, 
  author of Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir and The Nazi Doctors.
  ‘Among this book’s contributions, two stand out forcefully. It widens and deep-
  ens the meaning of both psychoanalysis and totalitarianism, in the context of a 
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