Ferenczi's “wise baby” phenomenon and resilience, 2014
How did psychoanalysis find its way from ‘‘traumatic progression’’ or ‘‘precocious maturity,’’ as... more How did psychoanalysis find its way from ‘‘traumatic progression’’ or ‘‘precocious maturity,’’ as described by Ferenczi at the beginning of the 1930s with its background in the ‘‘wise baby’’ phenomenon, to research on resilience? The paper focuses on psychoanalytic approaches to resilience. What was the contribution of ego psychology, object relations and attachment theories, self-psychology, and group experiences to understanding resilience? Results concerning resilience are based on longitudinal studies of early hospitalized or traumatized but ‘‘resilient children,’’ child survivors of genocides, wars, and communal violence, populations of children and adult refugees. The paper shows the different approaches to resilience, from factoral components to views of structures and processes, including the new ideas that place resilience and depletion as phenomena at the two ends of the same continuity of structural dimensions: psychobiological and object relational.
Building Blocks Toward Contemporary Trauma Theory Ferenczi's Paradigm Shift, 2009
How is psyche related to soma? What tricks does the mind play on the body — and vice-versa?
In ps... more How is psyche related to soma? What tricks does the mind play on the body — and vice-versa? In psychoanalysis, few have probed these questions more deeply than analysts from the Budapest school. Their work began in Hungary and was carried forward in other countries, following their forced emigration. In this study, I touch upon common features of Ferenczi ’ s and Groddeck ’ s thinking about psychosomatics. I explore the work of S á ndor Ferenczi, Lajos L é vy and Mih á ly B á lint among others, and the attraction between avant garde Hungarian intellectuals — mainly writers infl uenced by Ferenczi — and Georg Groddeck.
Contribution of Hungarian Psychoanalysts to Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, 2009
How is psyche related to soma? What tricks does the mind play on the body — and vice-versa?
In ps... more How is psyche related to soma? What tricks does the mind play on the body — and vice-versa? In psychoanalysis, few have probed these questions more deeply than analysts from the Budapest school. Their work began in Hungary and was carried forward in other countries, following their forced emigration. In this study, I touch upon common features of Ferenczi ’ s and Groddeck ’ s thinking about psychosomatics. I explore the work of S á ndor Ferenczi, Lajos L é vy and Mih á ly B á lint among others, and the attraction between avant garde Hungarian intellectuals — mainly writers infl uenced by Ferenczi — and Georg Groddeck.
After Ferenczi's death of pernicious anemia in 1933 at the age of 59, Michael Balint became t... more After Ferenczi's death of pernicious anemia in 1933 at the age of 59, Michael Balint became the greatest advocate of his late analyst, teacher, colleague, and friend. He was faced with widespread avoidance, a conspiracy of silence against Ferenczi in the psychoanalytic movement. Ernest Jones, in particular, an analysand of Ferenczi and fellow member of the Secret Committee founded by Freud before World War I, seriously attacked Ferenczi. In the third volume of the Freud biography, Jones alleged that in the last years of his life Ferenczi suffered mental deterioration caused by the pernicious anemia, and that this mental decline was the real cause of Ferenczi's technical experimentations, thereby belittling the importance of Ferenczi's independent work in the last phase of his life. This article answers whether Michael Balint, who later became the literary executor of Ferenczi, was devoted enough in countering the charges that lead to a fifty-year silence on Ferenczi'...
Ferenczi's “wise baby” phenomenon and resilience, 2014
How did psychoanalysis find its way from ‘‘traumatic progression’’ or ‘‘precocious maturity,’’ as... more How did psychoanalysis find its way from ‘‘traumatic progression’’ or ‘‘precocious maturity,’’ as described by Ferenczi at the beginning of the 1930s with its background in the ‘‘wise baby’’ phenomenon, to research on resilience? The paper focuses on psychoanalytic approaches to resilience. What was the contribution of ego psychology, object relations and attachment theories, self-psychology, and group experiences to understanding resilience? Results concerning resilience are based on longitudinal studies of early hospitalized or traumatized but ‘‘resilient children,’’ child survivors of genocides, wars, and communal violence, populations of children and adult refugees. The paper shows the different approaches to resilience, from factoral components to views of structures and processes, including the new ideas that place resilience and depletion as phenomena at the two ends of the same continuity of structural dimensions: psychobiological and object relational.
Building Blocks Toward Contemporary Trauma Theory Ferenczi's Paradigm Shift, 2009
How is psyche related to soma? What tricks does the mind play on the body — and vice-versa?
In ps... more How is psyche related to soma? What tricks does the mind play on the body — and vice-versa? In psychoanalysis, few have probed these questions more deeply than analysts from the Budapest school. Their work began in Hungary and was carried forward in other countries, following their forced emigration. In this study, I touch upon common features of Ferenczi ’ s and Groddeck ’ s thinking about psychosomatics. I explore the work of S á ndor Ferenczi, Lajos L é vy and Mih á ly B á lint among others, and the attraction between avant garde Hungarian intellectuals — mainly writers infl uenced by Ferenczi — and Georg Groddeck.
Contribution of Hungarian Psychoanalysts to Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, 2009
How is psyche related to soma? What tricks does the mind play on the body — and vice-versa?
In ps... more How is psyche related to soma? What tricks does the mind play on the body — and vice-versa? In psychoanalysis, few have probed these questions more deeply than analysts from the Budapest school. Their work began in Hungary and was carried forward in other countries, following their forced emigration. In this study, I touch upon common features of Ferenczi ’ s and Groddeck ’ s thinking about psychosomatics. I explore the work of S á ndor Ferenczi, Lajos L é vy and Mih á ly B á lint among others, and the attraction between avant garde Hungarian intellectuals — mainly writers infl uenced by Ferenczi — and Georg Groddeck.
After Ferenczi's death of pernicious anemia in 1933 at the age of 59, Michael Balint became t... more After Ferenczi's death of pernicious anemia in 1933 at the age of 59, Michael Balint became the greatest advocate of his late analyst, teacher, colleague, and friend. He was faced with widespread avoidance, a conspiracy of silence against Ferenczi in the psychoanalytic movement. Ernest Jones, in particular, an analysand of Ferenczi and fellow member of the Secret Committee founded by Freud before World War I, seriously attacked Ferenczi. In the third volume of the Freud biography, Jones alleged that in the last years of his life Ferenczi suffered mental deterioration caused by the pernicious anemia, and that this mental decline was the real cause of Ferenczi's technical experimentations, thereby belittling the importance of Ferenczi's independent work in the last phase of his life. This article answers whether Michael Balint, who later became the literary executor of Ferenczi, was devoted enough in countering the charges that lead to a fifty-year silence on Ferenczi'...
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beginning of the 1930s with its background in the ‘‘wise baby’’ phenomenon, to research on resilience? The paper focuses
on psychoanalytic approaches to resilience. What was the contribution of ego psychology, object relations and attachment
theories, self-psychology, and group experiences to understanding resilience? Results concerning resilience are based on
longitudinal studies of early hospitalized or traumatized but ‘‘resilient children,’’ child survivors of genocides, wars, and
communal violence, populations of children and adult refugees. The paper shows the different approaches to resilience,
from factoral components to views of structures and processes, including the new ideas that place resilience and depletion as
phenomena at the two ends of the same continuity of structural dimensions: psychobiological and object relational.
In psychoanalysis, few have probed these questions more deeply than analysts from the
Budapest school. Their work began in Hungary and was carried forward in other countries,
following their forced emigration. In this study, I touch upon common features of Ferenczi ’ s
and Groddeck ’ s thinking about psychosomatics. I explore the work of S á ndor Ferenczi, Lajos
L é vy and Mih á ly B á lint among others, and the attraction between avant garde Hungarian
intellectuals — mainly writers infl uenced by Ferenczi — and Georg Groddeck.
In psychoanalysis, few have probed these questions more deeply than analysts from the
Budapest school. Their work began in Hungary and was carried forward in other countries,
following their forced emigration. In this study, I touch upon common features of Ferenczi ’ s
and Groddeck ’ s thinking about psychosomatics. I explore the work of S á ndor Ferenczi, Lajos
L é vy and Mih á ly B á lint among others, and the attraction between avant garde Hungarian
intellectuals — mainly writers infl uenced by Ferenczi — and Georg Groddeck.
beginning of the 1930s with its background in the ‘‘wise baby’’ phenomenon, to research on resilience? The paper focuses
on psychoanalytic approaches to resilience. What was the contribution of ego psychology, object relations and attachment
theories, self-psychology, and group experiences to understanding resilience? Results concerning resilience are based on
longitudinal studies of early hospitalized or traumatized but ‘‘resilient children,’’ child survivors of genocides, wars, and
communal violence, populations of children and adult refugees. The paper shows the different approaches to resilience,
from factoral components to views of structures and processes, including the new ideas that place resilience and depletion as
phenomena at the two ends of the same continuity of structural dimensions: psychobiological and object relational.
In psychoanalysis, few have probed these questions more deeply than analysts from the
Budapest school. Their work began in Hungary and was carried forward in other countries,
following their forced emigration. In this study, I touch upon common features of Ferenczi ’ s
and Groddeck ’ s thinking about psychosomatics. I explore the work of S á ndor Ferenczi, Lajos
L é vy and Mih á ly B á lint among others, and the attraction between avant garde Hungarian
intellectuals — mainly writers infl uenced by Ferenczi — and Georg Groddeck.
In psychoanalysis, few have probed these questions more deeply than analysts from the
Budapest school. Their work began in Hungary and was carried forward in other countries,
following their forced emigration. In this study, I touch upon common features of Ferenczi ’ s
and Groddeck ’ s thinking about psychosomatics. I explore the work of S á ndor Ferenczi, Lajos
L é vy and Mih á ly B á lint among others, and the attraction between avant garde Hungarian
intellectuals — mainly writers infl uenced by Ferenczi — and Georg Groddeck.