The Analytic Patient and the Developing Child

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>There is an aspect of psychoanalytic thinking...that should now be made explicit: The era of the domination of American ego psychology which found its culmination in the ideas of Heinz Hartmann is over ( 1999)</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>With these words Dr Manuel Furer marked the transition of psychoanalysis from the field into which he entered as a candidate in the 1950's to the field in which he had emerged as an important leader throughout the subsequent half century.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>The transition is ongoing and has not been easy. The first two sections of this volume depict Furer's efforts realistically to integrate this transition to separate out new ideas from old to criticize some new theories and to support others all the while striving to preserve what he held to be the fundamental clinical techniques of psychoanalysis.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>The first part of this volume Psychoanalytic Technique in the World of Pluralism contains papers devoted to the discussion of various theoreticians and their influence toward the progression or retrogression of the field. The second part of this volume Psychoanalytic Training extends this discussion into the field of education and conveys Furer's dedication as a teacher supervisor and administrator.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>Readers may well  recognize Manuel Furer more readily from the third part of this volume Psychoanalysis and the Developing Child Here will be found his most important contributions toward the study of the emotional disorders of early childhood and also his work on eparation/Individuation with Margaret Mahler.  As was well known to every child who met him and every adult who worked with him Manny </span><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>Furer had special gifts of warmth and empathy. His signature concept of emotional refueling conveys these gifts.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>The introductions to the Freud lectures and to the Furer Symposium offer biographical portraits of one of our generation's most multitalented psychoanalysts.</span></p>