Assault on Truth

by Jeffrey Masson

Histria Books · 2025 · 380 pages

This incisive work probes a pivotal, and largely suppressed, moment in psychoanalytic history: Sigmund Freud's abrupt abandonment of his early "seduction theory." Masson, granted rare access to previously hidden documents, investigates why Freud shifted from positing childhood abuse as the root of mental illness to dismissing such claims as fantasy. For readers fascinated by the evolution of psychological thought and the uncomfortable truths that can shape entire disciplines, this book offers a bracing and revelatory account.

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