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  • ISBN:
    067413527X
  • ISBN-13:
    9780674135277
  • PUB. DATE:
    April 1995
  • PUBLISHER:
    Harvard University Press

The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi by Sandor Ferenczi, Judith Dupont (Editor), Michael Balint (Translator), Nicola Zarday Jackson (Translator)

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The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi

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  • Pub. Date: April 1995
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Synopsis

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.

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Freud criticised his one-time favourite son for advocating the 'kissing technique', Ferenzci believed that 'only sympathy heals'. This is the 1932 record of his analyses. His work was faltering, doubting, and quite possibly, healing.

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Biography

Judith Dupont is a psychoanalyst and lives in Paris.