Salmon of Knowledge Books

4158 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538

Join Hyde Park and Staatsburg Libraries with Salmon of Knowledge in a new joint program! Featuring local author Vivian Heller as we discuss her book Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud.

From Amazon, “It is the story of the childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud and one of the 20 students invited to attend her experimental school in 1920s Vienna. While Anna Freud tries to teach him how to overcome his fears, Peter’s native Vienna slides into fascist barbarism and he is forced to navigate an increasingly dangerous world… Vivian Heller draws on a wealth of primary sources, including her father’s case history and his internment diary, using novelistic techniques to bring the past alive.”