To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World The Life of Freida Fromm-Reichmann

A fascinating and dramatic account of a controversial figure in twentieth-century psychiatry. In this "dazzling and provocative" (Publishers Weekly) biography, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World tells the extraordinary life story of the German-Jewish refugee analyst who accomplished what Freud and almost everyone else thought impossible: she successfully treated schizophrenics and other seriously disturbed mental patients with intensive psychotherapy, rather than medication, lobotomy, or shock treatment. Written with unprecedented access to a rich archive of clinical materials and newly discovered records and documents from across Europe and the United States, Hornstein's meticulous and "delightfully lucid" (Kirkus Reviews) biography definitively reclaims the life of Fromm-Reichmann. The therapist at the core of Joanne Greenberg's I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is also the analyst who had an affair with, and later married, her patient Erich Fromm. A pioneer in her field, she made history as the pivotal figure of the unique and legendary mental hospital, Chestnut Lodge.

Gail Hornstein

Gail Hornstein is Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College and was the Founding Director of the Five College Women's Studies Research Center for its first ten years.