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In this book, Daniel Beer, Lecturer in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London, examines the use of medical and scientific theories of degeneration, particularly that of Bénédict Augustin Morel, by liberal professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and criminology

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The main text of this second edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's biography of Anna Freud remains unchanged from that of the highly acclaimed first edition. The author suggests that although new source material and scholarship on Anna Freud have become available since 1988, "nothing has appeared that

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