The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

Alexander Stille

432 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced

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In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders wanted to start a...

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mysterious 4%

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