![Sample our Behavioral Sciences journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two full volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/110801/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Behavioral-Sciences.jpg"})
Abstract
The subject of this discussion is Kenneth A. Frank's Paper “Strangers to ourselves: exploring the limits and potentials of the analyst's self awareness in self- and mutual analysis”. The author looks at Frank's ideas about this subject in light of some of the reflections put forth on it by Sandor Ferenczi, the “father” of mutual analysis. It seems that Ferenczi's thoughts about this are quite consonant with Frank's on both the potentials and limitations of the analyst's self awareness in self and mutual.
Notes
1Christopher CitationFortune (1993) reported, “For over 30 years Elizabeth and Margaret Severn [Elizabeth's daughter] maintained an intimate, almost daily, correspondence. In 1986, Margaret, honoring Elizabeth's last request, burned her mother's letters.” This was the year The Clinical Diary was first published. How much more we might have known about Ferenczi's experiments in mutual analysis had Margaret not burned the letters… .