First published in 1992, Freud's Women quickly established itself as an invaluable study of the women who peopled Freud's world--women who, as relatives and friends, patients and disciples, helped him to found the new discipline of psychoanalysis. Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester tell a fascinating and complicated story with great flair: Freud's Women is as scholarly as it is readable, moving between biography and theory to chart the intellectual history of psychoanalysis.

Using Freud's theoretical writings to illuminate his relations with women - from his wife, Martha, to one of his closest female friends, Lou Andreas-Salome, this book explores how these relations informed the development of his ideas and traces the legacy of these ideas in contemporary feminism.