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Supported by The International Team of Ivan Ward, Ferenc Eros & Anna Kovács and Tom Keve.
This special issue of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis is devoted to Sándor Ferenczi and the Clinical Diary. We are publishing here the collected papers inspired by our conference “Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis” organized by IMAGO International and the Freud Museum in London in October 2013. In the pages of this first special issue and a forthcoming second festive volume we try to revive the experience of this truly international meeting. We would like to share with you not only the edited texts presented there but—if at all possible—attempt to bring the words to life by giving you a taste of the atmosphere, as well. In this spirit we welcome our readers with the opening words of the London Conference:
Just one year ago in 2012 we were celebrating the arrival of the Ferenczi Archives to the Freud Museum. (see Dupont, 2013)
Touched by the privilege of having in the Museum these invaluable original documents and books—such as the Clinical Diary Ferenczi kept in the last year of his life—we started to think about a conference to celebrate the double centenary of the British and Hungarian Psychoanalytical Societies in 2013.
We were dreaming about a studio conference, where lively topics could be discussed in depth and where we would have enough time for reflections and associations.
Judit Szekacs-Weisz, Ph.D. is a bilingual psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, a member of both the British and the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society. Born and educated (mostly) in Budapest, she has absorbed the ideas of Ferenczi and the Budapest school as an integral part of a “professional mother tongue”. Living and working in a totalitarian regime sensitized her to the social and individual aspects of trauma, identity formation and strategies of survival. Since 1990 she lives and works in London. She is the author of several articles and co-editor of Lost Childhood and the Langu
PageJudit Szekacs-Weisz, Ph.D. is a bilingual psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, a member of both the British and the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society. Born and educated (mostly) in Budapest, she has absorbed the ideas of Ferenczi and the Budapest school as an integral part of a “professional mother tongue”. Living and working in a totalitarian regime sensitized her to the social and individual aspects of trauma, identity formation and strategies of survival. Since 1990 she lives and works in London. She is the author of several articles and co-editor of Lost Childhood and the Langu