The Clinical Diary of S?ndor Ferenczi

by Sándor Ferenczi

Book Overview

In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst S?ndor 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, S?ndor Ferenczi's Diary records self-critical reflections on conventional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674135261
• ISBN13: 9780674135260
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Notes of a kind and tenderhearted analyst

The Hungarian analyst Ferenczi was a Freudian, a member of Freud's early circle, and a renegade of sorts. He was Freud's analysand and, relatively quickly, moved into intellectually uncharted psychological waters. He gained a reputation as a passionate, unorthodox, and even flakey analyst. This "clinical diary" charts with candor, disarming simplicity, and stunning lucidity the thought process of Ferenczi as he discusses his patients, Freud, his own interesting experiences of countertransference, and his highly original and ( especially for their time) unconventional notions regarding the psychoanalyst's rightful and appropriate levels and types of engagement with patients. He was a caring and humane doctor. The writing is complex and layered at times. A very, very worthwhile read.