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This book is in the tradition of a Festschrift; a series of essays by students and colleagues who continue to contribute to a revisionist history of psychoanalysis, to which Paul Roazen is a pioneer. Roazen had an extraordinary idea at Harvard when he was in the Department of Political Science in the 1960s. He wanted to write the story of psychoanalysis from the perspective of those individuals who participated in shaping its history. Roazen, therefore, interviewed everyone who was still living in the 1960s who had contact with Freud, either as analysand, student, colleague, relative, or friend. As Michael Rogin, a fellow student of Roazen's at Harvard in the Political Science Graduate Department and now Bobson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, said in the foreword, Roazen's project was a landmark in political science and the history of psychoanalysis. Roazen's research produced a significant revisionist history of psychoanalysis entitled Freud and His Followers, published in 1975. Freud and His Followers is considered by many of us as the preeminent revisionist history of psychoanalysis, acting as an antidote to Ernest Jones's one-person psychology, hero-worshipping account of Freud and psychoanalytic history (Jones, 1953-1957). Roazen's two-person psychology, humanistic, and inclusive account helped revive interest in many of the ostracized and forgotten pioneers of psychoanalysis, such as Sandor Ferenczi, Otto Rank, and Georg Groddeck. This book also presents the widest vista for psychoanalysis, enabling the inclusion of all of its heroes.
One of the unheralded accomplishments that should be credited to Roazen's scholarship is his contribution to the Ferenczi Renaissance . When I began my review of Ferenczi's work over 20 years ago, it was Roazen's