Kravis, Nathan. <br/><br/>
On the Couch :  A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (225 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Why Is the Couch Used in Psychoanalysis -- 2 Symposion and Convivium -- 3 The Evolution of the Couch and the Rise of the Sofa -- 4 Comfort, Recumbence, Interiority, and Transgression -- 5 The Medicalization of Comfort -- 6 Recumbent Posture in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry and Therapeutics -- 7 Freud's Couch -- 8 The Analyst's Moral Interior -- 9 Whence? Whither? Whether? -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index. 
<br/><br/> How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262341639 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychoanalysis-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC506  / .K73 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.8917