After Freud: Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory

Second Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2022-23, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Julie Wood, MA

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February 24, 2023 — USA: Early Roots, the neo-Freudians

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Committed to Freudian tradition, and enriched by interdisciplinary and sociological study, the William Alanson White Institute in NYC and Chestnut Lodge in the DC-Baltimore region were the focal points for what became known as “the interpersonal school” of psychoanalysis. Clara Thompson MD, intending to be a medical missionary, studied with Ferenczi in Budapest and returned to the states to collaborate with the American and German “Neo-Freudians”: Fromm, Horney, Sullivan, and Fromm-Reichman to found WAWI.

Hirsch, I. (1998). Discussion of Interview with Otto Will: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis Then and Now. Contemp. Psychoanal., 34(2):305-322.

Thompson, C. (1959). Dynamics of Hostility. Am. J. Psychoanal., 19(1):10-13.