Freud Upside Down Sam Layton Weisse shows the lengths to

Weisse shows the lengths to which twentieth-century American dieters went to heal themselves outside the borders of orthodox medicine and the subsequent political and scientific backlash they received

Growing up queer and isolated

as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul

off-the-cuff interviews with passers-by

Freud Upside Down Sam Layton Weisse shows the lengths toA salient take on psychoanalysis as a cultural phenomenon, intersecting with African American literatureThis thought provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, Adrienne Kennedy, and Danzy Senna employed psychoanalytic terms and conceptual models to challenge notions of race and