Wilhelm Stekel's Dialogue with Sigmund Freud: The Case for Brief Therapy and the Symbolism of Dreams

Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex, is an authority on the cultural politics of Vienna in the final decades of the Dual Monarchy and the First Austrian Republic. His interests extend widely into related fields including the fate of German-Jewish culture under the pressures of anti-Semitism and the achievements of refugees from National Socialism. He is best known for a series of books published by Yale University Press: his two-volume study Karl Kraus - Apocalyptic Satirist (1986 and 2005); Freud in Exile: Psychoanalysis and its Vicissitudes (co-edited with Naomi Segal, 1988); and Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels (1995). His memoirs appeared in 2011 under the title Taking up the Torch: English Institutions, German Dialectics and Multicultural Commitments (Sussex Academic Press). Address for correspondence: 4 The Cliff, Brighton BN2 5RE, UK. []