ABSTRACT
Establishing Ferenczi’s impact on Interpersonal Psychoanalysis should hardly be challenging. The Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis (Lionells et al., 1995) features Ferenczi’s photograph, along with portraits of Sullivan, Thompson, Fromm, Fromm-Reichmann, and Horney—all in the firmament of the founders of interpersonal psychoanalysis. Ortmeyer (1995) includes him in his essay on the originators, noting that though he was “not one of the founders of the Interpersonal School; because of his theoretical and clinical influence on Interpersonalism, he merits being included in this chapter” (p. 25).
