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The Sandor Ferenczi Center at The New School for Social Research

Co-Chairs

Lewis Aron, Ph.D., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
http://www.psychoanalysis.net/~lewaron/
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
Jeremy Safran, Ph.D., Psychology Department, New School for Social Research and NYU Postdoctoral Program

Organizing Committee

Eli Zaretsky, Ph.D., Department of Historical Studies, New School for Social Research
Simon Critchley, Ph.D., Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research


Sandor Ferenczi as a young man		Sandor Ferenczi		Ferenczi & Freud



	Ferenczi's House

The goals of the Ferenczi Center include 1) sponsoring conferences and promoting research, scholarship, and publications regarding Ferenczi, 2) promoting new translations and publications of Ferenczi's writings, and 3) contributing to the ongoing vitality of psychoanalysis as a cultural, intellectual and psychotherapeutic discipline. Similar societies exist throughout Europe and we have established the Ferenczi Center with the enthusiastic support of Judit Meszaros in Budapest; Andre Haynal in Geneva; Judit Szekacs in London; Kathleen Kelley-Lainé and Michelle Moreau Ricaud in Paris; Franco Borgogno and Carlo Bonomi in Italy; Ferenc Erős the Editor of Thalassa, a Hungarian review of psychoanalysis, culture and society; and many of the leading Ferenczi scholars in Europe, as well as Edith Kurzweil, member of The New School for Social Research’s Board of Governors.

Setting the Sandor Ferenczi Center in The New School has historical significance. Ferenczi spent 4 months in New York in 1926 centered on a series of lectures given at The New School, after being invited to the United States by Alvin Johnson, the President of The New School. From his correspondence with Freud in this period, we know that he lectured, saw patients and was involved in key issues in the development of psychoanalysis and training in the United States. Linking the Ferenczi project to The New School reconnects American psychoanalysts to important features of our own history.

It is also of some significance that we established the Ferenczi Center precisely 100 years after Ferenczi's first meeting with Freud in 1908. It is also of historic significance that the Ferenczi Center is housed in a major university since Sandor Ferenczi himself was the first to have been appointed as a Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Budapest in 1918.

The Sandor Ferenczi Center Advisory Board

Kathleen Bacon
Anthony Bass
Martin Bergmann
Jeanne Wolff Bernstein
Victor Bonfilio
Etty Cohen
Elizabeth Ann Danto
Darlene Ehrenberg
Elsa First
Jay Frankel

Giselle Galdi
Gerry Gargiulo
Irwin Hirsch
Axel Hoffer
Lewis Kirshner
Robert Langan
Zvi Lothane
Robert Prince
Arnold Rachman

Therese Ragen
Peter Rudnytsky
Katherine Schwarzenbach
Stephen Seligman
Sue Shapiro
Ann-Louise Silver
Donnel Stern
Judith Vida

Your help is needed to advance Ferenczi’s remarkable legacy and promote the continued vitality of the field of psychoanalysis.

Donations should be made payable to The New School. Please include a letter indicating that the donation is for The Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research.

We recommend a minimum donation of $300 for institutional donors and $100 for individual donors. All donors will be publically recognized at the inaugural event. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law. Please send your contribution to:

Giorgio Zeolla
Director of Development
The New School for Social Research
79 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10003

For credit card payments, use The Sandor Ferenczi Center at The New School for Social Research Credit Card Contribution Form (Adobe PDF).

Should you have any questions, you may also contact Mr. Zeolla at (212) 229-5662, extension 3041, or by email at zeollag@newschool.edu.

For more information about The Sandor Ferenczi Center at The New School for Social Research, please email - FerencziCenter@newschool.edu.

On Jan 12, we held the inaugural event for the The Sandor Ferenczi Center at The New School for Social Research. For the benefit of those who were not able to attend this event, we have provided a link to the inaugural address given by Judit Meszaros, Ph.D., Founding member of The Sandor Ferenczi Society in Budapest. We have also provided links to the introductory remarks given by 1) Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., co-chair of the Ferenczi Center at the New School, and 2) Viktor Polgár, Ambassador, Consul General for The Republic of Hungary.

The Sandor Ferenczi Society has been selected as a recipient of the 2008 Mary S. Sigourney Award for significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis.

http://www.ferenczisandor.hu/news/index.php?blogid=2

Sponsoring Organizations

The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology

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