Editing Sándor Ferenczi (section)

== Biography ==
[[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumbnail|At [[Clark University]] in 1909. Front row: [[Sigmund Freud]], [[G. Stanley Hall]], [[Carl Jung]]; back row: [[Abraham A. Brill]], [[Ernest Jones]], Ferenczi.]]

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Born '''Sándor Fraenkel''' to Baruch Fränkel and Rosa Eibenschütz, both [[Polish Jews]], he later [[Magyarization|magyarized]] his surname to ''Ferenczi''.

As a result of his psychiatric work, he came to believe that his patients' accounts of [[Sexual abuse#Child sexual abuse and effects|sexual abuse as children]] were truthful, having verified those accounts through other patients in the same family. This was a major reason for his eventual disputes with Sigmund Freud.

Prior to this conclusion he was notable as a psychoanalyst for working with the most difficult of patients and for developing a theory of more active intervention than is usual for psychoanalytic practice. During the early 1920s, criticizing Freud's "classical" method of neutral interpretation, Ferenczi collaborated with [[Otto Rank]] to create a "here-and-now" psychotherapy that, through Rank's personal influence, led the American [[Carl Rogers]] to conceptualize person-centered therapy.<ref>{{harvtxt|Kramer|1995}}</ref>

Ferenczi has found some favour in modern times among the followers of [[Jacques Lacan]] as well as among [[relational psychoanalysis|relational]] psychoanalysts in the United States. Relational analysts read Ferenczi as anticipating their own clinical emphasis on mutuality ([[intimacy]]), [[intersubjectivity]], and the importance of the analyst's [[countertransference]]. Ferenczi's work has strongly influenced theory and praxis of the interpersonal-relational theory of American psychoanalysis, as typified by psychoanalysts at the [[William Alanson White Institute]].

Ferenczi was president of the [[International Psychoanalytical Association]] from 1918 to 1919.

[[Ernest Jones]], a biographer of Freud, termed Ferenczi as "mentally ill" at the end of his life, famously ignoring Ferenczi's struggle with [[pernicious anemia]], which killed him in 1933. Though desperately ill with the then-untreatable disease, Ferenczi managed to deliver his most famous paper, "Confusion of Tongues"<ref>{{cite journal |author=Ferenczi, Sándor |orig-year=1932 |title=Confusion of the Tongues Between the Adults and the Child—(The Language of Tenderness and of Passion) |url=http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=ijp.030.0225a |journal=[[International Journal of Psycho-Analysis]] |year=1949 |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=225–230}}</ref> to the 12th International Psycho-Analytic Congress in [[Wiesbaden]], [[Germany]], on 4 September 1932.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Sabourin |first=Pierre |title=Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/confusion-tongues-between-adults-and-child |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |location=[[Farmington Hills, Michigan]] |date=December 17, 2019 |access-date=January 3, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Rachman Wm. |first=Arnold |title=Ferenczi's "Confusion of Tongues" Paper: A Turning Point in the Understanding and Treatment of Trauma |url=http://www.sectionfive.org/continuing_education/ferenczi/commentary/ <!-- Section V - Continuing Education - Ferenczi --> |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120181856/http://www.sectionfive.org/continuing_education/ferenczi/commentary/ |archive-date=November 20, 2008 |access-date=January 3, 2020}}</ref>

Ferenczi's reputation was revived in 2002 by publication of ''Disappearing and Reviving: Sandor Ferenczi in the History of Psychoanalysis''.<ref>Andre E. Haynal (ed.), ''Disappearing and Reviving: Sandor Ferenczi in the History of Psychoanalysis''. London: Karnac Books.</ref> One of the book's chapters dealt with the nature of the relationship between Freud and Ferenczi.