This is the correspondence between two physicians and psychoanalysts from the circle of Sigmund Freud, a correspondence ended only by the death of Ferenzci in 1933. The letters, largely those of Ferenczi (as few of Groddeck's have been preserved), bear witness to the friendship of two men who made so many original contributions to psychoanalysis, and at the same time reflect the history of psychoanalysis. They met in the summer of 1921, when Ferenczi was taking a cure at the Sanatorium in Baden Baden and Groddeck was his doctor, and they soon became friends. Their correspondence is personal and intimate, and shows us two highly individual personalities. Additionally, the volume includes the introduction to the original edition of these letters, first published in French in 1982, by Judith Dupont, psychoanalyst, translator, and editor of Ferenczi's complete works in French. Ample notes by Christopher Fortune provide the background to this correspondence.

2013 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Georg Groddeck (1866-1934) was a physician and writer regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine. Of his method Groddeck wrote: "He who draws the conclusion that I mentally medicate a human who has broken his leg is very true - but I adjust the fracture and dress the wound. And then - I give him a massage, make exercises with him, give a daily bath to the leg with water at 45 C for half an hour and I take care that he does neither gorge nor booze, and every now and then I ask him: Why did you break your leg...?" The present volume is a compilation of addresses and articles taken, for the most part, from journal articles. Chapters include: Shadows of the Past Unconscious Purpose in Animal Behavior Unconscious Factors in Organic Processess Unconscious Symbolism in Language and Art Theoretical Bases