A Conversation with Dr. Judit Mészáros

Judit Mészáros, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst with the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society (affiliated with the IPA) and member of the Training Committee of the Society. She is a honorary associate professor at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and a staff member at the European Psychotherapy Training Institute, Budapest. She has written scores of papers and is the editor and author of several books, with Ferenczi and Beyond. Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement during the Nazi Years (Karnac, 2014) the most recently published. She has also curated exhibitions about Ferenczi and the Budapest School at the Freud Museum (London, 2004) and the Galeria Centralis of the Open Society Archives (Budapest, 2006), and consulted on documentaries on Ferenczi’s life (2001, 2012). She was the author of the Ferenczi House Project, finished by purchasing the former office of Ferenczi’s original villa (2006–2011). She is president of both the International Sándor Ferenczi Foundation and the Ferenczi Society, as well as a psychoanalyst in private practice. Research grants: IPA Research Committee; IPA Research Training Program, London; Research Support Scheme; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC; Soros Foundation; Freud Museum, London. Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, is the Interview Editor for Psychoanalytic Perspectives and a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York University and her postgraduate psychoanalytic and supervisory training from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, where she is now a clinical supervisor and advisor. She also has a private practice in New York City, treating individuals, couples, and groups. This January 2017, Jill will have a piece in a new book by Bonnie Zindel, titled Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others, published by Karnac Books.
Address correspondence to Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, 250 West 57th Street, Suite 501, New York, NY 10019. E-mail: Visit jillchodergoldman.com