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The story of how pyschoanalysis was used in the struggle against Nazi Germany - told by a historian and practising psychoanalystClosely follows the British pychoanalytical interrogation of Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, following his bizarre capture in 1941Weaves together Allied attempts to understand Hess and Hitler with the wider attempt to understand the pathology of Nazism and its hold over the German peopleShows how Freud's famous 'talking cure' was harnessed to the wartime needs of military intelligence
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The story of how pyschoanalysis was used in the struggle against Nazi Germany - told by a historian and practising psychoanalystClosely follows the British pychoanalytical interrogation of Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, following his bizarre capture in 1941Weaves together Allied attempts to understand Hess and Hitler with the wider attempt to understand the pathology of Nazism and its hold over the German peopleShows how Freud's famous 'talking cure' was harnessed to the wartime needs of military intelligence
