Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory (Rudnytsky Peter L.)(Paperback)

Sndor Ferenczi's mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn--the patient known as R.N. in the Clinical Diary--is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. In his latest groundbreaking work, Peter L. Rudnytsky draws on a trove of archival sources to provide a definitive scholarly account of this experiment, which constitutes a paradigm for relational psychoanalysis, as Freud's self-analysis does for classical psychoanalysis.In Part 1, Rudnytsky tells the story of Severn's life and traces the unfolding of her ideas, culminating in The Discovery of the Self. He shows how her book contains disguised case histories not only of Ferenczi and Severn herself--and thereby forms an indispensable companion volume to Ferenczi's Clinical Diary--but also of Severn's daughter Margaret, an internationally acclaimed dancer
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