Examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. This book includes the lives and work of Ferenczi, Jung, Stekel, Winnicott, Coltart, and Little, each of whom sought to…

Ferenczi’s mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. In this book, Peter L. Rudnytsky draws on a trove…

The contributors to this volume explore the impact of D.W. Winnicott’s psychoanalytical theories, focusing on the relevance of his independent version of object relations theory to psychoanalytical literary criticism.

Elizabeth Severn, known as R.N. in Sandor Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary, was Ferenczi’s analysand for eight years, the patient with whom he conducted his controversial experiment in mutual analysis, and a…

Following Freud’s lead, Rudnytsky and Spitz approach works of art as constituting psychoanalytical, or forbidden , knowledge. This collection of essays pursues the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works…

Hungarian-born analyst Sandor Ferenczi was long one of the most influential and overlooked of Sigmund Freud’s disciples. This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination by 15 eminent scholars and…