Otto Rank and the Creation of Modern Psychotherapy

Robert Kramer, PhD, is Visiting Professor of Public Leadership at Corvinus University of Budapest. He taught Rankian psychology and existential-humanistic psychotherapy at the Institute of Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (2022-2023) and was Visiting Professor of Psychology at Corvinus University of Budapest (2017-2021). In 2016, he was the inaugural International Chair of Public Leadership at the National University of Public Service in Budapest. Previously he taught leadership and Rankian psychology at American University and George Washington University, both in Washington, DC.

• List of figures Foreword Preface 1: Creating modern psychotherapy 2: Self-leadership 3: The denial of death 4: Immortality 5: Difference versus likeness 6: "David and Goliath" 7: The will of the father 8: The will of the mother 9: Transference versus relationship 10: Feelings 11: How did Rank practice therapy? 12: Carl Rogers meets Otto Rank 13: Willing = feeling alive = guilt-feeling 14: I-Thou . . . Thou-I 15: Client-centered therapy 16: The daimonic, counter-willing, and an "other world" 17: Empathy and agape Epilogue: "I was born beyond psychology" Appendix A: Chronology of Rank's life and work Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography of Selected Writings on Rank Notes References Author's Note Index

This scholarly and timely book offers the reader an introduction to the creative legacy of Otto Rank and his contribution to the development of the existential-humanistic focus in psychotherapy. ...a particularly valuable contribution for our time.