Conversations with Freud

This is a short book with an biography of Freud, and then a interview session where Newton answers questions about his life (as if he were alive). The series has been renamed Conversations with ... some well known person and is a good light summary of Freud's life. It would be a good book for an advanced reader in public school.

This short but nevertheless most compelling of books is entitled a fictional dialogue based on biographical fact and imagines a contemporary conversation between Sigmund Freud and Freud expert D. M. Thomas. Before this, there is a brief biography of Freud which enables a reader like me, who has only the most rudimentary knowledge of the founder of psychoanalysis, to gain some much needed background before the question and answer session begins.

There is a surprising amount of ground covered here (for a book that I easily read in one sitting) including some of the basic principles of his theories, his fallout with Jung and the importance of his Jewishness. This is a most absorbing little book and it may get one into further reading about this most influential and controversial of characters.

An interesting and informative read that stands apart from the crowd due to its originality and fresh take on Freud.