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Only three of the patients among Freud's psychoanalytic case histories were actually analyzed by Freud and the Wolf Man is the longest and most complex of the case histories. Only the Wolf Man (Sergei Pankejeff, ) was subsequently followed by generations of psychoanalysts through psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, interviews, correspondence and social contacts. Adding another dimension, the Wolf Man provided his own recollections and reflections about his life and his psychoanalytic therapy. The lifetime follow-up is unique, particularly given analytic and ethical concern for anonymity and confidentiality. The Wolf Man is here re-introduced in a contemporary analytic and cultural context, with a reconsideration of his severe psychopathology and some of the remarkable aspects of his life and treatments. It is anticipated that the Rorschach will contribute further to the analytic investigation of this classic case.
The Wolf Man's Rorschach protocol, administered by Dr. Frederick S. Weil , was presented to me by Dr. Frederick Weil's widow, Dr. Annemarie P. Weil , a legacy she related to my writings relevant to the Wolf Man. Both Drs. Weil were training analysts of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute where F. Weil offered a course on the Rorschach in 1948. He had studied in Switzerland with clinicians who had been trained by Rorschach. The psychoanalytic community has hardly been aware of the existence of the Wolf Man's Rorschach. It is not known who first proposed that it be administered or how contact was established between the Wolf Man and Dr. Weil. Nor do we know what the Wolf Man was told about the Rorschach test or about Dr. Weil or why he agreed to take the test.
The meeting of the Wolf Man with Dr. Weil and the test were arranged following a long correspondence. The Wolf Man spent most of his two days in Austria with F. Weil discussing his symptomatic complaints, especially depression, referring to past treatments, and essentially talking about himself. He wrote of