Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought Book

The blurb on the book jacket is right, this book is quite "accessible". For its accessibility, though, it was also intellectually sophisticated enough to not come across as a "pop" history of psychoanalysis. For all its sophistication, it does not come across as a "for professionals only" kind of read, as many of the philosophy books I face do. My only criticism is that for some reason or other, a figure as significant (and popularly known) as Carl Jung gets the short shrift, not to mention the likes of Erich Fromm, Carl Rogers, Wilhelm Reich, and Konrad Lorenz. The book claims to just be about Freud and all the psychoanalytic movements that are considered successors of the original Freudian paradigm (I always though Jung was at least roughly in that Cannon). If I were to speculate, I would suspect some political agenda behind the exclusion, much the same way analytic philosophers neglect to mention continental philosophy outside the context of history or of "mistakes to avoid". Perhaps the title is just a little too accurate. Bottom line; quite good at what it talks about, but as a general reader you may feel there are gaps in the history it presents, and will want to look elsewhere for your intro to Jung and company.