Table of Contents

Introduction - Edith Kurzweil
1. Sandor Ferenczi: Discovery and Rediscovery - Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris
I. Constructing and Reconstructing the Historical Record
2. Ferenczi's Preanalytic Period Embedded in the Cultural Streams of the Fin de Siecle - Juidit Meszaros
3. Ferenczi and the Origins of Psychoanalytic Technique - Andre Haynal
4. Ferenczi's Relevance to Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique: Commentary on Andre Haynal's Chapter - Axel Hoffer
5. Ferenczi and Sexuality - Arnold Wm. Rachman
6. The Case of "RN": Sandor Fer's Radical Experiment in Psychoanalysis - Christopher Fortune
7. Fer's Contributions to Psychoanalysis: Essays in Dialogue - Kathleen Bacon & John E. Gedo
II. Bridges, Emigres, and Inheritors
8. Michael Balint: Analysand, Pupil, Friend, and Successor to Sandor Fer - Judith Dupont
9. Clara Thompson: Fer's Messenger with Half a Message - Sue A Shapiro
10. Sandor Fer and American Interpersonal Relations: Historical and Personal Reflections - Berjamin Wolstein
11. Ferenczi's Influence on Fromm - Marco Bacciagaluppi
III. Clinical Implications
12. Flowing Over-Transference, Countertransference, Telepathy: Subjective Dimensions of the Psychoanalytic Relationship in Ferenczi's Thinking - Gyorgy Hidas
13. Abandoned Workings: Ferenczi's Mutual Analysis - Therese Ragen & Lewis Aron
14. Collusion and Intimacy in the Analytic Relationship - Jay B. Frankel
15. Clinical Aspects of Malignant Regression - Harold Stewart
IV. Postscript
16. What Can We Learn from Ferenczi Today? - Lazlo Benedek

About the Author

Lewis Aron, Ph.D., ABPP, is Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; President, Division of Psychologists-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA); Editorial Board, Studies in Gender and Sexuality; and Series Co-editor, Relational Psychoanalysis Book Series.





Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor, New York University Postdoc-toral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is the author of Gender as Soft Assembly (TAP, 2005).

Reviews

"This comprehensive collection of essays reveals many aspects of the life and work of Ferenczi. The contributors delineate Ferenczi's early clinical intuitions into the importance of sexual trauma, borderline fragilities, and the handling of negative transference. His constantly creative mind also led him to explore the importance of early psychic trauma and its dislocating effects on psychosomatic unity. The editors, for their part, emphasize the impact of Ferenczi's research on the development of Kleinian and post-Kleinian theories, as well as on the interpersonality tradition in the United States....Important elements of Ferenczi's personality - his deeply humanitarian outlook, his capacity for self-criticism, and his courage in facing new clinical challenges and responding with creative theory building - are highlighted throughout the book. Readers will follow with fascination Ferenczi's conflictual relationship with Freud....The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi will be read with profit and pleasure by all those interested in mental health - by analysts, therapists, scholars, and interested lay readers alike." - Joyce McDougall, D.Ed., International Psychoanalytical Association "This instructive and readable volume appears at a time of resurgent interest in the clinical contributions and personality of Sandor Ferenczi. . . . It is an excellent companion to the available volumes of Ferenczi's collected papers." - Eugene Brody, M.D., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease