Contents
PROLOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 The Daughter
2 The Student
3 The Psychiatrist
4 The Woman and the Jew
5 The Exile
6 Asylum
7 Improvising Method
8 Creating Chestnut Lodge
9 Joanne Greenberg
10 The Unredeemed
11 The Luxury of Guilt
12 Public Acclaim
13 Private Decline
14 Rose Garden
EPILOGUE: THE AMBIGUITY OF HOPE
NOTES
WORKS OF FRIEDA FROMM-REICHMANN
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS
Prologue
There are no goals, only the goal...to lift up the fallen and
to free the imprisoned...to work toward the redemption of the world.
September 28, 1948. The evening was mild. The air, misted with the memory of
rain, smelled of catalpa and breeze. Paths through the grounds at Chestnut Lodge
were deep in shade, the broad-brimmed trees thick with birds and leaves. A
family-owned asylum in the Maryland countryside, the Lodge was often mistaken
for a country estate. No fences or gates enclosed the sweeping grounds, but
patients did not try to leave. Those not on locked wards walked aimlessly along
the paths, watching offices in the m ... read full excerpt from: To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann ebook
