Print version: Kravis, Nathan. On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017] xvi, 204 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780262036610
Includes bibliographical references and index
Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis? -- Symposion and convivium -- The evolution of the couch and the rise of the sofa -- Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression -- The medicalization of comfort -- Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and therapeutics -- Freud’s couch -- The analyst’s moral interior -- Whence? whither? whether?