Against Therapy

New York: Atheneum, 1988. 2nd Printing. Octavo quarter bound in black cloth with gray boards, gilt titles to spine; dust jacket; 279 pp; 22 cm Very good(+)in very good dust jacket; boards clean and smooth, minor shelf-wear to corners; faint foxing to textblock; inked name and address to free endpaper; pages clean; binding tight; dust jacket shows slight toning; else clean and intact. Hardcover. ISBN: 0689119291

The author of "The Assault on Truth" takes the position here that all forms of psychotherapy are wrong because the very structure of the therapist-patient relationship negates the freedom and dignity of the person seeking help. Though this study is sometimes shrill and overstated, it is in many ways Masson's best and most controversial book. Drawing on German-language sources, he presents disturbing new evidence of Jung's collaboration with the Nazis, then argues persuasively that Jungian therapy shows disdain for the real traumas people experience