France is next to Argentina the most Freudian country in the world.

On its 100th birthday, throughout the world psychoanalysis has become marginal. Its effectiveness discredited and its foundations under question. Its manpower is in free fall.

The Black Book on Psychoanalysis exposes the discipline from among the world’s top experts in the field with a long-overdue debate. They are historians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, doctors, researchers and even patients.

Did Freud lie? Does psychoanalysis cure? Is psychoanalysis the best way to understand who we are? What should we think of other therapies?

The Black Book on Psychoanalysis sums up in an accessible manner where we are after a century of living with Freud.