This classic study of Sigmund Freud and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle is widely recognized as the best portrait of Freud and his world, and it focuses as much on the human dramas involved as on the ideas the participants developed. "Required reading for all interested in the history of psychoanalysis." - Bruce Mazlish, Boston Globe. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Psychology, biography, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Stekel, Carl Jung, Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Sandor Ferenczi, Helene Deutsch, Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Erik Erikson, Erich Fromm, Ernest Jones, Paul Roazen).