Description: This book presents the early history of psychoanalysis, focusing on the network of psychoanalytic "filiations" and the context of discovery of crucial concepts, such as Freud's technical recommendations, the therapeutic use of countertransference, and the psychotherapeutic treatment of psychoses.
Brief description: Ernst Falzeder is a Senior Research Fellow at the University College London, and editor and translator for the Philemon Foundation of the publication of the Complete Works of C. G. Jung. He is a former research fellow at the University of Geneva, as well as Cornell University Medical School (NYC), and Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). He was chief editor of the Freud/Ferenczi correspondence (3 vols., Harvard University Press), editor of the complete Freud/Abraham letters (Karnac), translator of Jung's seminar on children's dreams (Princeton University Press), and editor, with John Beebe, as well as translator of Jung's correspondence with Hans Schmid (Princeton University Press). He has also written more than two hundred publications on the history, theory and technique of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.