The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi by Sandor Ferenczi
In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Ferenczis diary records self-critical reflections on conventional psychoanalytic theoryas well as criticisms of his own experiments with techniqueand his obstinate struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy.
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 *
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 *
Judith Dupont is a psychoanalyst and lives in Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674135277 |
| ISBN 10 | 067413527X |
| Title | The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi |
| Author | Sandor Ferenczi |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1995-03-19 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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