Main description:

The two-volume Life of Gregory Zilboorg is a meticulously researched biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist Russia to his prominence as a New York psychoanalyst on the eve of the Second World War.

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, including family papers and archival material, this biography offers a dramatic narrative that will appeal to general readers as well as scholars interested in the First World War, the Russian revolution, the Jewish diaspora, and the history of psychoanalysis.

Contents:

Volume I. 1. Family and Childhood: 1890-1909 2. The Struggle for Education: 1909-1914 3. War: 1914-1916 4. Revolution: 1916-1917 5. Escape: 1917-1919 6. Embracing the New World: 1919-1922 7. 'The Great Columbia University': 1922-1923 8. 'Complete moral independence': 1923-1926 9. Bloomingdale and Berlin: 1926-1931 10. Private Practice: 1931-1933 11. Alternatives: 1933-1935 12. Divided Attention: 1935-1937 13. 'World affairs':1937-1939 14. Other Affairs: 1939-1940 Volume II. 1. Confrontation: 1940-1941 2. 'I do not consider myself up for charges': 1941-1942 3. Mind, Medicine, and Man: 1942-1943 4. War and Peace: 1944-1946 5. Health and Happiness: 1946-1950 6. Peace and Prosperity: 1950-1953 7. Faith, Hope and Charity: 1954-1955 8. 'His should be the path of spiritual development':1955-1957 9. Time and Tide: 1957-1959 10. Aftermath: Coda