TY - BOOK AU - Kravis,Nathan TI - On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud T2 - The MIT Press Series SN - 9780262341639 AV - RC506 .K73 2017 U1 - 616.8917 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge PB - MIT Press KW - Psychoanalysis-History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5891096 ER -