Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational Neurobiological Perspective

Author(s) : Arnold W. Rachman, Author(s) : Clara Mucci

Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational Neurobiological Perspective

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 312
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Category 2 :
    Trauma and Violence
  • Catalogue No : 97287
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032207476
  • ISBN 10 : 1032207477

Table of Contents


1. The Origin of Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Concept in the Biblical Narrative of the Tower of Babel
2. Ferenczi’s Presentation of the Confusion of Tongues Paper, The 12th International Psycho-Analytic Congress, Wiesbaden, Germany, September, 4, 1932
3. Freud’s Diagnosis of Sándor Ferenczi as having a “Pseudologia Fantastica” Disorder
4. Freud's Denunciation of Ferenczi and The Confusion of Tongues: His Self Analysis, “Emotional Blindness” and Pathologizing Ferenczi
5. Traditional Psychoanalysis’s Totschweigen Campaign to Silence the Confusion of Tongues Paper
6. The Confusion of Tongues Between Freud and Ferenczi
7. Ferenczi’s Alternative Confusion of Tongues Theory: Expanding the Psychoanalytic Perspective to Include Trauma
8. Confusion of Tongues Contribution to the Evolution of Theory and Method in Psychoanalysis
9. Confusion of Tongues and the Language of Sexuality (Arnold Wm Rachman and Paul Mattick)
10. A Contemporary View of Analyzing Childhood Sexual Trauma
11. The Confusion of Tongues Between Freud and Dora
12. The Analysis Between Sándor Ferenczi and Elizabeth Severn: Origin of the Confusion of Tongues Paradigm and Trauma Analysis
13. The “Two Person Psychology”: The Necessity to Extend the Freudian Theory to the Reality of the Interpersonal Traumatic Development (Clara Mucci)
14. Three Levels of Human Agency and the Problems of the Diagnostic: Statistical DSM Categories for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Clara Mucci)
15. Therapy for Trauma of Human Agency: “What Has Been Damaged in a Relationship Needs to be Healed in a Relationship” (Clara Mucci)
16. The Analysis Between Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud: A Confusion of Tongues
17. The Confusion of Tongues of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson: A First Person Account of Captivity in Colonial America
18. The Confusion of Tongues Trauma In An Abducted Child: The Case of Elizabeth Smart
19. The Confusion of Tongues Trauma Between Franz Kafka and His Father

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