ABSTRACT

The coming into being of psychoanalysis as a psychotherapeutic method and as a profession was perhaps as influential as the impact of Freud’s ideas in general. The coming into being of psychoanalysis as a psychotherapeutic method and as a profession was perhaps as influential as the impact of Freud’s ideas in general. The present form of psychoanalytic training goes back to the ‘tripartite model’ developed in Berlin in 1920. The Budapest Congress nourished the illusion that psychoanalysis would gain public recognition and support, that polyclinics could be founded, and that the psychoanalytic movement could maintain its independence with the help of von Freund’s money. The talks at the congress were published as the first book of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag which had been founded with von Freund’s fund. Ferenczi was soon to be appointed the world’s first university professor for psychoanalysis, and to head a psychoanalytic clinic.