the same sense that the aim (direction) of my life is death. ... We have to be persuaded by the mother's love that life is worthwhile, and for the rest of our life we remain dependent on love to successfully combat the death instinct in ...
I proposed that “a more parsimonious Ferenczian hypothesis than Ferenczi's own questionable idea about introjecting the aggressor's guilt feelings ... [is that] perpetrators may treat the child/victim as if she is guilty, and the child ...
This book defines postmodern relational concepts, and offers a clear, thoughtfully curated examination of relationality and its impact on psychoanalytic technique for both experienced clinicians and those newer to the field.
Letter from Sándor Ferenczi to Sigmund Freud, October 30, 1909. In E.Brabant, E.Falzeder, and P.Giampieri-Deutsch (eds & Trans.), The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, 1908–1914, Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press ...
In this edited book, each author describes pivotal childhood and adult life events and crises that have contributed to personality formation, personal and professional functioning, choices of theoretical positions, and clinical technique.