Freud's Pandemics

Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis

Brett Kahr
Karnac Books
300 pages
ISBN: 9781913494513
September 2021

In this timely new work, Professor Brett Kahr presents a narrative of Sigmund Freud’s own personal struggle with many near-death experiences. But in spite of the numerous difficulties which Sigmund Freud had to navigate across his lifetime, he persevered with the living of his life. Having found Freud’s lust for survival to be quite inspiring, Professor Kahr shares the richness of Freud's inner world, offering access to the unique insights and capacities of the father of modern psychology and showing how psychoanalysis can help us all to survive, and even to thrive, during the very worst of times.