ABSTRACT

This book explores how the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis took shape and examines the role played in it by Sandor Ferenczi. It integrates the Hungarian story of the "exile of the Budapest School" with an American perspective on "solidarity in the psychoanalytic movement during the Nazi years".

chapter One|22 pages

Towards psychoanalysis (1897–1908) 2

chapter Four|20 pages

The first wave of emigration in the early 1920s

chapter Five|18 pages

A period of consolidation

chapter Eight|50 pages

The time has come (1938–1941): the second wave of emigration

The Hungarian analysts and their emigration struggles—constraints and opportunities

chapter Nine|36 pages

Emigration: losses and gains