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Imre Hermann's scientific productivity is indeed remarkable: he has published over seventy original papers, more than fifty before 1939, as well as numerous reviews. His clinical papers are carefully linked to theory, and his theoretical papers—often linked to mathematics, logic, or basic neurology—are rich in clinical detail. Although a summary of Hermann's thinking, L'Instinct Filial (The Archaic Instincts of Man), was published in France in 1972, his work has seldom been translated. Hence it is not surprising that those who know it best frequently find his contributions 'rediscovered' in other works.
In Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation, Hartmann (1939) cites Hermann's 1920 paper, Intelligence and Thought in Depth, when he postulates that adaptability is not proportionate to intelligence. Hartmann added that Hermann 'has made many valuable contributions to the psychoanalytic theory of thought processes'. Rapaport (1951) concurs. Among Hermann's contributions to the study of thinking and logic are Psychoanalysis and Logic, Intelligence and Qualitative Differences in Thinking, and The Ego and Thinking: A Psychoanalytic Study. Hartmann also noted another of Hermann's early contributions to ego psychology: 'Hermann (1922) assumes that the repetition compulsion develops into "orderly repetition" ("ordinance").'
Hermann's contributions to the study of special talents are found in his papers of 1922, 1923, 1926, and 1930. And five papers on the psychology of primates from the psychoanalytic point of view were published in 1923, 1926, 1931, 1933, and 1936. His first paper on developmental psychology, written with his wife, A. Hermann-Cziner, appeared in 1923: On the Developmental Psychology of the Handling of Objects.