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When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed (review)

The journey to Camp Putnam proved arduous for both Freud and Putnam, but during the long day they managed to spend time together, apart from the frenetic activity of other campers, and developed the mutual understanding that would sustain their intellectual friendship despite challenging differences in temperament and social values. Prochnik is at his best in his fresh account of the intellectual dialectic between the American idealist and his Old World mentor and demonstrates the remarkable role played by Susan Blow in Putnam’s attempt to tame Freud’s vision for service to America. Blow, the Progressive advocate of kindergartens, was Putnam’s patient but became his closest intellectual friend and provided Putnam with Hegelian rebuttals to Freud’s materialism. Although crucial philosophical differences were beyond resolution, Putnam gained insight into his own sexual suffering from psychoanalysis and remained confident that knowledge of the unconscious and the irrational could be put to constructive purpose. Putnam served as Freud’s American champion despite intense disagreements and helped forge the consensus among American medical leaders that accelerated the rise of dynamic psychology in the United States. Prochnik’s account of this intellectual collaboration includes fresh portraits of both Putnam and Freud. He carefully delineates their mutual debts as well as the antagonisms that they struggled to manage. In Prochnik’s work, Freud and Putnam remain great clinicians who bravely sought insight into human suffering wherever they needed to venture, but they become more human as their personal needs and contradictory behaviors are taken into account. Prochnik’s Camp Putnum joins Peter D. Kramer’s Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind (2006) as a postrevisionist work of critical synthesis and advances our understanding of the principal characters in the rise of dynamic psychology and their attempts to advance knowledge of the role of the irrational in human affairs.