ABSTRACT
The "Budapest School" is characterized by a number of seminal ideas and independent features, which are epitomized in the personality and the activities of the outstanding figure of Sandor Ferenczi and some of his followers. According to Sigmund Freud, Ferenczi's works "have made all analysts into his pupils"; he added that it would be "impossible to believe that the history of our science will ever forget him". As a matter of fact, Ferenczi strongly influenced the entire psychoanalytic movement, especially the "technique" of therapeutic treatment. On an institutional level, in accordance with Freud's views and convictions, Ferenczi was one of the founders of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). In 1913 Ferenczi founded the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association in Budapest. With the dissolution of the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society, the connection with the IPA was also severed. The history of psychoanalysis in Hungary has been called a "history of horrors".
