The Analyst: A Daughter's Memoir

On Saturday, October 7, Alice Wexler, PhD, discusses her recent book, The Analyst: A Daughter’s Memoir. The presentation will be followed by a book signing. Limited copies are available for purchase, below.

The Analyst is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her father’s intense private life and explores how his life and work reveal the broader reaches of Freudian ideas in the United States. She draws on decades of Milton Wexler’s unpublished family and professional correspondence and manuscripts as well as her own interviews, diaries, and memories. Through the lens of Milton Wexler’s friendships, the book offers glimpses into the lives of cultural icons such as Lillian Hellman, Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers), and Frank Gehry. The Analyst is at once a striking account of the arc of an iconoclast’s life, a daughter’s moving meditation on her complex father, and a new window onto on the wider landscape of psychoanalysis and science in the twentieth century.

Alice Wexler, PhD, is the author of five books, including a two-volume biography of the anarchist Emma Goldman and two books about Huntington's disease, one of which won an American Medical Writers' Association Book Award in 2009. Her latest book, The Analyst: a Daughter's Memoir, takes a different turn, exploring her father's life in psychoanalysis and science as well as her own complex relationship to an unconventional and sometimes controversial Dad. She lives in Santa Monica.