ABSTRACT
From the late 1910s through to the early 1930s, Ferenczi experimented with ways to revive stalled treatments of his narcissistically disturbed patients—patients who, he discovered, generally had been severely abused as children. His technical experiments tracked his deepening understanding of psychological trauma. Ultimately, he placed his discovery of identification with the aggressor (IWA) at the heart of the traumatic response, and shaped his method of treating the sequelae of childhood trauma around it.
