Freud in OzChildrens literature has spent decades on the psychiatrists couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children. In fact, Kenneth B. Kidd argues, childrens literature and psychoanalysis have influenced and interacted with each other since Freud published his first case