Elizabeth Severn
Subtitle: the 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis
By: Arnold WM Rachman
Edition: First edition.
Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781315649221
Subjects: Psychologists; Biography; Psychoanalysis; History; PSYCHOLOGY; Psychotherapy; General
Description: "Elizabeth Severn: The 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis chronicles the life and work of Elizabeth Severn, both as one of the most controversial analysands in the history of psychoanalysis, and as a psychoanalyst in her own right. Condemned by Freud as "an evil genius", Freud disapproved of Severn's work and had her influence expelled from the psychoanalytic mainstream. In this book, Rachman draws on years of research into Severn to present a much needed reappraisal of her life and work, as well as her contribution to modern psychoanalysis. Arnold Rachman's re-discovery, restoration and analysis of the Elizabeth Severn Papers - including previously unpublished interviews, books, brochures and photographs - suggests that, far from a failure, that the analysis of Severn by Ferenczi constitutes one of the great cases in psychoanalysis, one that was responsible a new theory and methodology for the study and treatment of trauma disorder, in which Severn played a pioneering role. Elizabeth Severn should be of interest to any psychoanalyst looking to glean fresh light on Severn's progressive views on clinical empathy, self-disclosure, countertransference analysis, intersubjectivity and the origins of relational analysis."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Finding psychoanalysis --; title: A personal journey  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Finding Ferenczi --; title: My struggle to build a bridge from phenomenology and humanistic psychotherapy to relational analysis  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Finding "R.N." as Elizabeth Severn  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Finding The Elizabeth Severn Papers --; title: An unknown legacy of psychoanalysis  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Eissler finds Severn --; title: Discovering the 1952 Eissler/Severn interview  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Freud's condemnation of Severn as an "Evil Genius"  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Todschweigen (death by silence) --; title: Removal of Elizabeth Severn's ideas and work from mainstream psychoanalysis  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Psychoanalysis of difficult cases --; title: Freud's case of the Wolf Man and Ferenczi's case of Elizabeth Severn  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Elizabeth Severn as a person  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Severn finds Ferenczi --; title: From psychiatric patient to analysand to analytic partner  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Severn as a clinician  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter The development of trauma analysis  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Analyzing the Ferenczi/Severn analysis  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter The rule of empathy --; title: Ferenczi and Severn's contribution  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter The clinical in-vitro experiment in intersubjectivity between Ferenczi and Severn  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter The Confusion of Tongues between Sándor Ferenczi and Elizabeth Severn  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter A Two-Person Psychology for Psychoanalysis --; title: Severn and Ferenczi's analytic partnership  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Non-interpretative measures in the analysis of trauma  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Severn's trauma of premature termination  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Severn's recovery, 1933-1959 --; title: "To Work, To Love" (Freud)  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Severn and Ferenczi's recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse --; title: An appraisal  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter The development of therapeutic regression --; title: Severn, Ferenczi, and Balint  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Severn's Orpha function --; title: Resilience and recovery from trauma  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Ferenczi's case of R.N., Elizabeth Severn --; title: A landmark in psychoanalytic history  -- Arnold William Rachman; title: chapter Severn as a psychoanalyst -- Arnold William Rachman.