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Development of Psychoanalytic Thought & Theory
February 26, 2021 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Freud Classroom
Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Julie Wood, MA
Melissa Stoker, MS
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February 26, 2021 — USA: Early Roots, the neo-Freudians
[22 pages]
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.