Historical novels about psychologists

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I am currently reading Mr Keynes Dance, with wikipedia on hand, and I now have a slightly better understanding of Britain's economic policy between the wars. (I in no way consider myself an expert). Has anyone found any similar books about psychologists? I would love to build a summer reading list.

Thanks for bringing up this book, it sounds really quite good.
I hope pp come up with suggestions for your list!

The only one that popped into my head was Frank Tallis, Vienna Blood series. Set in Vienna in the early 1900's as Freud is teaching.

The Fig Eater set in Vienna and Freud is a main character.

I don’t know if it is quite what you are looking for but Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy is about treating shell shock in officers in WWI. Psychiatrists rather than psychologists I suppose but it is excellent

There"s 'Where Three Roads Meet' by Salley Vickers, about Freud towards the end of his life & a retelling of the Oedipus myth.

I’d start with Mr Keynes’ Revolution, which is the first of the two and starts in the peace negotiations after the First World War.

They are really good, and it is a fascinating look at the period.

Morris West’s novel The World is Made of Glass is about Jung.

I loved those books! Pat Barker could write 'bum' on a wall and I would read it. She is truly amazing.

@JurassicClark, You are right, that is the first one. I really enjoyed both. I love this period.

Yes, the women of Troy is extraordinary too. Although I read a current-day one of hers and didn’t love it

Some are pretty hard hitting, like Blow Your House Down about prostitution during the Ripper years in the North. Very different style to later on.

The Silence Of The Girls and Women Of Troy have a third book coming out, according to the Waterstones spam I get.

OP, I remember a crime novel set in New York during Freud’s visit there which incorporated the beginnings of psychoanalysis, if you fancy. I did read it about 15 years ago so my recollection may be a bit fuzzy - Interpretation Of A Murder by Jed Rubenfeld.

It's not about a psychiatrist per se, although one does feature heavily: Asylum by Patrick McGrath.

ETA- your title clearly does NOT ask about psychiatry, apologies/ignore me!

Waiting For Sunrise by William Boyd sort of fits the brief although the psychiatrist isn't the main character.

Seconding Interpretation of a Murder. I also read it a while ago, and it really stuck in my memory

Loving all these suggestions. I always feel more curious about a subject when I read about it in context. Please keep any other suggestions coming.

I would also love any other novels that will give me a little overview of a subject I should know more about.

Sorry to bump my own thread, but I have just watched Mrs Dalloway with my mum and I think I have to detour through Virginia Wolf next. Looking forward to psychology historical novels all summer if anyone wants to join me.

Well, Woolf was both quite anti-psychoanalysis, and also knowledgeable about it — her Hogarth Press published Freud in English translation, the translation by other Bloomsbury Group members, Alix and James Strachey, and her brother Adrian and his wife were among the first British psychoanalysts.

Mrs Dalloway is a great place to start. Or To the Lighthouse.

Does The Alienist by Caleb Carr fit? I've not read it but Dh did some while ago.

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