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Trauma and healing: from ‘furor sanandi’ to ‘animus sanandi’
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In this article, Ferenczi tried to complement the negative technical principles first introduced by Freud in the 1910s by introducing diverse and successive "positive instructions" and specific techniques known as "elastic" of "relaxation and neocatharsis" and also made an unsucessful attempt to introduce "mutual analysis".Abstract:
In his last period (1928–33), Ferenczi tried to complement the ‘negative’ technical principles first introduced by Freud in the 1910s. He introduced diverse and successive ‘positive instructions’, and specific techniques known as ‘elastic’ of ‘relaxation and neocatharsis’, and also made an unsucessful attempt to introduce ‘mutual analysis’. These techniques are implemented around a series of new technical principles including ‘tact’, ‘empathy’, ‘indulgence’, ‘intense sympathy’. All of these positive technical principles and innovations demonstrate the importance of considering the dimension of ‘healing’ in all analytic experiences and the importance of the analyst's functioning as the ‘healer’. The emphasis on the use of these new technical principles is consistent with the emphasis Ferenczi places upon countertransference and traumatic factors in psychopathogenesis.read more
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Transference and Countertransference
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cogent, lucid and elegantly articulate contribution to a central psychoanalytic topic, namely countertransference, which constitutes the principle focus and axis of the author's re-examination and development of psychoanalyst technique and theory, written to address a perceived gap between psychoanalogic knowledge and its capacity to effect psychological transformation in the patient.
Confusion of tongues between adults and the child
TL;DR: The Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of the confusion between adults and children in psychoanalytic work. But it does not consider children.
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Further Contributions to the Theory and Technique of Psycho-Analysis
TL;DR: Ferenczi's "Active Technique of Psychoanalysis" as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and has been used extensively in the field of medicine.
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Final contributions to the problems & methods of psycho-analysis
TL;DR: Ferenczi's final volume as discussed by the authors includes "Confusion of Tongues Between Children and Adults" in which he formulates his controversal ideas on childhood sexuality, and the conflict between the languages of tenderness and passion.