The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled iAn Autobiographical Studyi, Helene Deutsch's iConfrontations with Myself An Epilogue, i Wilfred Bion's iWar Memoirs 1917-1919, i Masud Khan's iThe Long Wait, i Sophie Freud's iLiving in the Shadow of the Freud Family, i and Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom's iA Matter of Death and Lifei. brbrOffering in each chapter a brief character sketch of the memoirist, the book shows how personal writing fits into their other work, often demonstrating the continuities and discontinuities in an author's life as well as discussing each author's contributions to psychoanalysis, whether positive or negat