ABSTRACT
The development of trauma analysis, which was co-created by Severn and Ferenczi, was through clinical interactions that focused on treating trauma disorder, and expanded analytic theory and clinical practice beyond the Oedipal complex and the analysis of neurotic conflict. Freud had many opportunities to introduce an alternative to the Oedipal analysis of emotional disorder in his clinical thinking about the cases of Dora/Ida Bauer and the Wolf Man/Sergei Pankejeff. The description of the stages of the trauma analysis that developed between Ferenczi and Severn was reconstructed from Ferenczi's report of this clinical interaction contained in the Clinical Diary. Ferenczi harbored negative feelings toward Severn in the early period of their analysis described as antipathy in the Clinical Diary. Severn can be credited with a new perspective for the function of countertransference in the psychoanalytic encounter. The experience of mutual analysis was a struggle for both Ferenczi and Severn, since it signaled such a remarkable departure from psychoanalytic thinking and behavior.
