A study of birth order, based on 20 years of the author's research into thousands of lives in politics, science and religion. He attempts to explain why people raised in the same families often differ dramatically and concludes that family dynamics is a primary engine of historical change.

A pioneering theory of the significance of birth order assesses the impact of family dynamics on personality and the human character, assessing the family in terms of an ecosystem in which siblings compete for parental resources and attention. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

Product Description: In this monumental intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind; and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as psychoanalytic hero as it served to consolidate the analytic movement...read more