The Hungarian psychiatrist Sandor Ferenczi was a contemporary of Freud's who challenged some aspects of Freud's way of structuring the analytic relationship. His work was largely ignored for decades, largely because he died young from pernicious anemia in 1933. His reputation was not aided by Ernest Jones, who described Ferenczi as psychotic in his last years. Contrary to Freud's recommendations of strict neutrality, Ferenczi explored flexibility in the analytic relationship, going as far as engaging in a shared “mutual analysis” with his patient Elizabeth Severn. Ferenczi's work received a renaissance when The Clinical Diary, written in 1932 was published in 1988. His seminal paper, “The Confusion of Tongues,” was rediscovered as a major contribution to the understanding of trauma, especially sexual abuse of children. Now,