Current Issue: Volume 7, Number 1
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A New (2010) Introduction to Aron and Harris (1993) Sándor Ferenczi: Discovery and Rediscovery: An
Introduction to: The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi
Lewis Aron, PhD, and Adrienne Harris, PhD, have written an updated introduction to their classic book exclusively
for Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Out of print for 17 years, The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi has
only recently been republished online.
Sándor Ferenczi: Discovery and Rediscovery
Lewis Aron, PhD, and Adrienne Harris, PhD, have given us the rights to publish this first chapter from their
groundbreaking book, The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi.
Origins of a Relational Perspective in the Ideas of Sándor Ferenczi and the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Arnold Rachman, PhD, describes Ferenczi’s theoretical and clinical work regarding countertransference, the notion
of a two-person psychology, mutuality, and, at the time, other radical ways of thinking as a predictor of object
relations theory and, the relational school that would emerge some 50 years after his death. His paper reminds us
how crucial Ferenczi was to psychoanalysis.
An Interview with Jeremy Safran on the Founding of the Sándor Ferenczi Center at New School University
Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, talks with Jeremy Safran, PhD, co-chair of the Sándor Ferenczi Center at the New School in
New York. In an interview conducted for this Journal, Safran discusses the founding of the center and how Ferenczi
came to be seen as the father of Relational Psychoanalysis.
Sándor Ferenczi and the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Judit Meszaros, PhD, gives us insight into Ferenczi’s personal and professional history and his relationship to
the school he started in his home city. Included here are some photos of Ferenczi and colleagues.
From Elasticity to the Confusion of Tongues: A Historical Commentary on the Technical Dimension of
the Freud/Ferenczi Controversy
Peter Hoffer, PhD, sheds light on the conflict between Ferenczi and Freud.
Ferenczi and Ego Psychology
Italian Psychoanalyst, Carlo Bonomi, PhD, explains how ego
psychology ruled in the United States for 40 years until the aversion to Ferenczi began to abate.
Confusion of Tongues: Trauma and Playfulness
Galit Atlas-Koch, PhD, adds a clinical paper discussing two cases from the point of view of the distinction
between the language of tenderness and the language of aggression.
Death/Life: Reflections on Reading Ferenczi
Lane Gerber, PhD, writes of how he identifies with Ferenczi and the personal way the paper
“The Unwelcome Child and His Death Instinct” (Ferenczi, 1929) resonated with him.
Ferenczi’s Lucubrations
Robert Langan, PhD, tempts the reader with a fantasy of being in the room with Ferenczi
as he burns the midnight oil.
Sándor Ferenczi: The Dramatologist of Love
Zvi Lothane, MD, writes about dramatization and dramatology in the psychoanalytic consulting room and recognizes
that Ferenczi viewed symptoms as communications of love, given and received.
Ferenczi’s Work on War Neuroses
Adrienne Harris, PhD, discusses “Two Types of War Neuroses” (Ferenczi, 1916/1917) and explains how Ferenczi,
working in a field hospital during World War I, saw the powerful function of unconscious phenomena, regression
and fragmentation in the trauma of these men.
Book Review: Healing Through Love: A Review of “Disappearing and Reviving: Sándor Ferenczi
in the History of Psychoanalysis”
Pascal Sauvayre, PhD, explores Ferenczi’s highly complex presence in the history of psychoanalysis in his
review of this book by Andre Haynal.
Creative Literary Arts
In the Creative Literary Arts Section, we have included two essays with similar themes: Darcy Dean Minsky, LCSW,
MS, writes about the death of her analyst of 22 years and Kabi Hartman, PhD, writes about the sudden death of the
analyst who saw her through difficult times.
On Bread and Wine
Private Lives offers a moving essay by Spyros Orfanos. PhD, ABPP, about the death of his father and his
honored memory.
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