Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

who narrowly escaped the ravages of war and overcame severe hardships and adversities by successfully dedicating themselves to their children and to their work.It is also another important contribution to our understanding of Sigmund Freud, his times, and his legacy to his closest descendants.The relationship between Esti and Sophie Freud was almost always marked by strife and contention, two women attempting to gain emotional ascendancy in a fatherless and husbandless home that was rocked by the storms of war.Sophie in this book castigates herself as a negligent and unloving daughter.This reviewer cannot gainsay the truth of that harsh self-judgment.Yet, it should be patently clear that the publication of this book, principally her mother's autobiography, is Sophie's belated and expiative testament of her great love for the woman she could not more openly and directly love before her death in 1980 at the age of 84.This is a book that should be of great interest to Freud scholars, psychotherapists, and the general public, including of course quidnuncs, who, like most psychotherapists, especially enjoy delving into the interesting personal affairs and squabbles of other people's families-particularly famous families like the Freuds.Sophie Freud is to be commended for her courage in publishing this highly self-disclosing, candid, and profoundly interesting book.