A leading disciple and confidant of Freud, Otto Rank
revolutionized the field of psychoanalytic theory in "The Trauma of
Birth" (1924). In this book, Rank proposed that the child's
pre-Oedipal relationship to the mother was the prototype of the
therapeutic relationship between analyst and patient. Although Rank
is now widely acknowledged as the most important precursor of
humanistic and existential psychotherapy--influencing such
well-known writers as Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and Ernest
Becker--Rank's knotty prose has long frustrated readers. In this
volume of Rank's lectures, Robert Kramer has brought together for
the first time the innovator's clearest explanations of his most
influential theories.
The lectures were delivered in English to receptive audiences of
social workers, therapists, and clinical psychologists throughout
the United States from 1924 to 1938, the year before Rank's
untimely death. The topics covered include separation and
individuation, projection and identification, love and will,
relationship therapy, and neurosis as a failure in creativity. The
lectures reveal that Rank, much maligned by orthodox analysts,
invented the modern object-relations approach to psychotherapy in
the 1920s. In his introduction, based on private correspondence
between Rank, Freud, and others in the inner circle, Robert Kramer
tells the full story of why Rank parted ways with Freud. The
collection of lectures constitutes a "readable Rank," filled with
insights still relevant today, for those interested in the
humanistic, existential, or object- relational aspects of
psychotherapy, or in the development of the psychoanalytic
movement.
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