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."