Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank

E. James Lieberman, M.D., is a clinical professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He has authored and edited a number of books, including Otto Rank's Psychology of the Soul and The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, both also published by Johns Hopkins. Robert Kramer, Ph.D., is the editor of A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures of Otto Rank.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, 1906–19102. Alfred Adler Departs, 19113. Judging Jung, 1912–19134. The Committee, 1913–19145. War, 19146. Limbo, 1915–19167. Krakow, 1916–19188. Active Therapy and Armistice, 19189. Eros Meets Thanatos, 1919 and 192010. Rising Tension, 192111. Favorite Son, January to July 192212. Fratricide, August to December 192213. Birth of the Mother, January to June 192314. Under the Knife, June to December 192315. Crisis, January to April 192416. New York, May to October 192417. About-face, October to December 192418. Reunion and Ending, 1925–192619. Willing, Feeling, Living, 1926–1939EpilogueAcknowledgmentsAppendixa. Minor Lettersb. A Precocious Dream Analysisc. Major Figures in the Freud-Rank Correspondenced. Family Chart of Sigmund Freud in 1905e. Otto Rank Family TreeNotesBibliographyIndex

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