Freud's Wizard

This biography of Welsh psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, reveals a life that might be a suitable subject for television's DATELINE or SIXTY MINUTES. Remembered as an early champion of Sigmund Freud's work, which he helped to get translated and published in the English-speaking world, Jones also wrote a definitive three-volume life of Freud. Brenda Maddox reveals, however, that Jones himself had a suppressed past: he had once been charged with improper conduct with pupils, and his first wife died under suspicious circumstances. Maddox provides a compelling story of Freud and his circle, and of Jones's role in the dark and dirty waters of the British psychoanalytic establishment.