Budapest School of Psychoanalysis

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The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis was an early 20th-century psychoanalytic movement centered in Budapest that emphasized clinical innovation, child analysis, and a more relational, socially engaged approach to Freudian theory.

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instanceOf intellectual movement
psychoanalytic school
approachToFreud clinically oriented
revisionist
socially oriented
associatedInstitution Budapest Psychoanalytic Society
associatedWith International Psychoanalytical Association
country Hungary
emphasizes child analysis
clinical innovation
relational approach to psychoanalysis
socially engaged psychoanalysis
field history of psychoanalysis
focusesOn early mother–infant relationship
social context of the psyche
trauma and its transmission
foundingFigure Sándor Ferenczi
historicalContext Austro-Hungarian Empire
interwar period
inception early 20th century
influenced attachment-informed psychoanalysis
contemporary trauma theory
psychoanalytic social theory
relational psychoanalysis
influencedBy Sigmund Freud
knownFor emphasis on mutuality in the analytic relationship
experiments with psychoanalytic technique
integration of social and cultural factors into psychoanalysis
shorter and more flexible analytic treatments
languageOfWork German
Hungarian
mainLocation Budapest
movement psychoanalysis
notableMember Alice Balint
Géza Róheim
Imre Hermann
Margaret Mahler
Michael Balint
Sándor Ferenczi
relatedConcept Balint groups
linked to: Balint group

confusion of tongues theory
mutual analysis
primary love
regression in the service of the ego
theoreticalOrientation developmental focus
object relations thinking
relational psychoanalysis

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Sándor Ferenczi associatedWith Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Vienna Psychoanalytic Society influenced Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality associatedWith Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Gizella Pálos memberOf Budapest psychoanalytic circle
linked to: Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Gizella Pálos associatedWith Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Sándor Ferenczi associatedWith Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
subject linked to: Alexander Fränkel