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The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi
Sándor Ferenczi
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Paperback. This text provides an edited version of the clinical diary of Sandor Ferenczi, a noted Hungarian psychoanalyst. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, it records self-critical reflections on conventional theory and his struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy. Translator(s): Balint, Michael; Jackson, Nicola Zarday. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: BG; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sándor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community. During his lifetime Ferenczi, a respected associate and intimate of Freud, unleashed widely disputed ideas that influenced greatly the evolution of modern psychoanalytic technique and practice. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Sándor Ferenczi’s Diary records self-critical reflections on conventional theory—as well as criticisms of Ferenczi’s own experiments with technique—and his obstinate struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy. From these pages emerges a hitherto unheard voice, speaking to his heirs with startling candor and forceful originality—a voice that still resonates in the continuing debates over the nature of the relationship in psychoanalytic practice.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674135277
SKU
V9780674135277
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About Sándor Ferenczi
Judith Dupont is a psychoanalyst and lives in Paris.
Reviews for The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi
Compelling… Ferenczi was an innovator, an experimenter, someone who was always trying new approaches to the treatment of mental illness, even when his unorthodox techniques placed him in opposition to his analyst and mentor, Sigmund Freud.
Stuart Schneiderman
New York Times Book Review
Allows the public interested in such matters to assess, far better than before, the range of [Ferenczi’s] professional gifts and the depth of his psychological vulnerability… A welcome addition to the growing number of significant texts illuminating the history of psychoanalysis.
Peter Gay
London Review of Books
The Diary is the work of a sane mind in full possession of its powers and gives us insight into the day-to-day thoughts of a practitioner whose status as a creative innovator is probably unsurpassed since Freud. It is a very moving book. One is continually amazed by the courage of the man.
Peter Lomas
Times Literary Supplement
Freud criticised his one-time favourite son for advocating the ‘kissing technique’; Ferenczi believed that ‘only sympathy heals’. This is the 1932 record of his analyses. His work was faltering, doubting, and quite possibly, healing.
David Flusfeder
The Week
Stuart Schneiderman
New York Times Book Review
Allows the public interested in such matters to assess, far better than before, the range of [Ferenczi’s] professional gifts and the depth of his psychological vulnerability… A welcome addition to the growing number of significant texts illuminating the history of psychoanalysis.
Peter Gay
London Review of Books
The Diary is the work of a sane mind in full possession of its powers and gives us insight into the day-to-day thoughts of a practitioner whose status as a creative innovator is probably unsurpassed since Freud. It is a very moving book. One is continually amazed by the courage of the man.
Peter Lomas
Times Literary Supplement
Freud criticised his one-time favourite son for advocating the ‘kissing technique’; Ferenczi believed that ‘only sympathy heals’. This is the 1932 record of his analyses. His work was faltering, doubting, and quite possibly, healing.
David Flusfeder
The Week