Florent Gabarron-Garcia delves into a valuable legacy, at long last restoring psychoanalysis to its central place in struggles for freedom.

In this book, readers will see Freud enthusiastically welcome the Russian Revolution of 1917 and encourage Vera Schmidt in her efforts to adapt psychoanalysis to Bolshevik Russia; Wilhelm Reich fight, first in Austria, then Germany, for the discipline's so-called political neutrality; follow the trajectory of François Tosquelles from the Spanish Civil War to Jean Oury's Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital to La Borde clinic; discover the revival of revolutionary psychoanalysis in 1960s Germany with SPK, the Socialist Patients' Collective, whose manifesto called for turning "illness into a weapon."