1st Edition

The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis The Origin of a Two-Person Psychology and Emphatic Perspective

Edited By Arnold Rachman Copyright 2016
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis brings together a collection of expertly written pieces on the influence of the Budapest (Ferenczi) conception of analytic theory and practice on the evolution of psychoanalysis. It touches on major figures Sándor Ferenczi and Michael Balint whilst concurrently considering topics such as Ferenczi’s clinical diary, the study of trauma, the Confusion of... Read more

Prologue

  1. Introduction
    Joseph Lichtenberg
  2. The Ferenczi House as a Space for Identity Formation
    Judith Mésázros
  3. A Multifacted Legacy: Sandor Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary
    Judith Dupont.
  4. Ferenczi: Lacan’s Missed Rendez-Vous?
    Yves Lugrin
  5. From Lacan to Ferenczi
    Michael Larivière
  6. A ‘Wise Baby’?: Ferenzi’s Presence
    André Haynal
  7. Freud, Ferenczi and the Case of Schreber: A Mutual Enactment of Homoerotic Longings, Homophobia, and Internalized Anti-Semitism
    Aron Lewis and Karen Starr
  8. The Dimensions of the Freud/Ferenczi Correspondence
    Peter Hoffer
  9. The Budapest School’s Concept of Supervision: Michael Balint’s Legacy to the Development of Specificity Theory
    Howard Bacal
  10. Psychoanalysis’ Neglect of the Incest Trauma: The Confusion of Tongues Between Psychoanalysis and Society
    Arnold Rachman
  11. Confusion of Tongues in Child Abduction: Revising the Stockholm Syndrome
    Arnold Rachman

Epilogue
Arnold Rachman

Biography

Arnold WM. Rachman is a licensed psychologist, trained psychoanalyst, Member of the Board of Directors at the Sandor Ferenczi Center, The New School For Social Research, NYC, and Honorary Member at the Sandor Ferenczi Society, Budapest, Hungary.

"This superb new collection of chapters on the legacy of Sandor Ferenczi is a major contribution to the growing field of Ferenczi scholarship and to our understanding of the history and seminal influence of the Budapest school of psychoanalysis. Arnold Rachman has solicited outstanding contributions from some of the more prominent Ferenczi scholars in the international community, and provided us with a wealth of new information about Ferenczi’s influence on the field as well as the relevance of his work for contemporary psychoanalysis. This is a must read for anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and concerned about its future." - Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D., Chair & Professor of Psychology,The New School for Social Research, Co-Founder & Co-Chair of the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School

 

"Arnold Rachman's combination of scholarly knowledge and practical experience as a psychotherapist makes this book both intellectually exciting and emotionally resonant, an invaluable contribution to the history of psychoanalysis." - Paul Mattick, Professor of Philosophy, Adelphi University