Volume 19, Number 2 · August 10, 1972
Doctoring Freud
By Charles Rycroft
Freud: Living and Dying
by Max Schur
International Universities Press, 537 pp., $20.00
In 1915, while a medical student, Dr. Max Schur, the author of this latest biographical study of Freud, attended the course of lectures which were later published as the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. After qualification, he practiced internal medicine and in 1928 became Freud's physician and, as such, responsible for the management of the aftereffects of the cancer of the maxilla which Freud had developed in 1923—and of the surgery with which it had been treated. With one short interval he remained Freud's physician until the latter's death in 1939, becoming in the meantime a psycho-analyst himself. After Freud's death he settled in New York, publishing numerous papers, of which at least two can be regarded as biographical essays on Freud. He himself died 1969 after having devoted many years to the preparation of this book.
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