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Within The Last Fifteen years, devotees of the history of psychoanalysis will have had the opportunity to enjoy a veritable bevy of newly published biographical studies, detailing the lives of our celebrated Freudian ancestors. These books have included a variety of titles about Sigmund Freud himself, notably the hefty tome by Peter Gay (1988), as well as the worthy study of Freud's mid-life crisis by Peter Newton (1995), among others (cf. Roith, 1987; Donn, 1988; Gay, 1990; Grinstein, 1990; Schultz, 1990; Appignanesi and Forrester, 1992; Freud, 1992; Rosenzweig, 1992; Lohser and Newton, 1996; Margolis, 1996; Mahony, Bonomi, and Stensson, 1997; Crews, 1998; Rizzuto, 1998; Stepansky, 1999; and Breger, 2000).
Additional biographies might be mentioned, especially Edward Hoffman's (1994) survey of the life of the much neglected pioneer Alfred Adler; Martin Stanton's (1990) guide to the career of Sándor Ferenczi; E. James Lieberman's (1985) definitive book on Otto Rank; John Kerr's (1993) study of Sabina Spielrein; Paul Roazen's (1985) affectionate tribute to his dear friend and mentor Helene Deutsch; Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's (1988) detailed examination of the career of Anna Freud; Phyllis Grosskurth's (1986a) commendable and controversial attempt to grapple with Melanie Klein; as many as two thorough treatments of Karen Horney, by Susan Quinn (1987) and by Bernard Paris (1994); a biography of Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham, written by her grandson, Michael John Burlingham (1989); Lawrence Friedman's (1990) well-documented analysis of Karl Menninger and his family, and Friedman's (1999) subsequent study of Erik Erikson; John Sutherland's (1989) appreciation of Ronald Fairbairn; Élisabeth Roudinesco's (1993, 1997) informed coverage of the life and work of the notorious Jacques Lacan; Judy Cooper's (1993)