Sándor Ferenczi has been a controversial figure in the history of psychoanalysis. He was closely attached to Freud, on the one hand, and on the other, he experimented with a methodology different from Freud's that led to a schism between him and many leading analysts, including Freud. Contrary to his contemporaries, who saw counter-transference as an impediment to analysis, Ferenczi emphasized that the analyst must concern himself with the experienced trauma of the patient in order to find the core of the relationship between analyst and analysand. By placing the personal relationship between patient and analyst as the essence of treatment, he aimed to refine the “gold” of psychoanalysis itself. Today there are few analysts who do not accept that intersubjectivity is central to psychoanalysis.