Judit Mészáros, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst with the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society (IPA) and honorary associate professor at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As President of the Sándor Ferenczi Society and International Ferenczi Foundation, she has played a key role in raising awareness of the Ferenczi legacy. She has written and edited books on Ferenczi, the Budapest School, and their contribution to the theory and technique of modern psychoanalysis. She has also curated exhibitions at the Freud Museum, London, and the Gallery of the Open Society Archives, Budapest, and consulted on documentaries on Ferenczi’s life.
This book explores how the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis took shape, and in particular examines the role played in it by Sándor Ferenczi, Freud’s closest friend and associate. It asks what the... (more)