Peter L. Rudnytsky

Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the University of Florida, a Visiting Scholar in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Emory University, and the editor of American Imago. Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Corresponding Member of the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, he is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private practice in Gainesville. He received the Gradiva Award in 2003 for Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck, and in 2004 was the Fulbright/Freud Society Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna.

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The Discovery of the Self: A Study in Psychological Cure

by Elizabeth Severn

Elizabeth Severn, known as R.N. in Sandor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary, was Ferenczi's analysand for eight years, the patient with whom he conducted his controversial experiment in mutual analysis, and... (more)

Her Hour Come Round at Last: A Garland for Nina Coltart

Edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, Gillian Preston

This title is a celebration of the life of Nina Coltart, who had a career in medicine and psychoanalysis and was author of bestselling titles in psychotherapy The Baby and the Bathwater and How to... (more)

Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

by Peter L. Rudnytsky

In a stunning fusion of literary criticism and intellectual history, Peter L. Rudnytsky explores the dialectical interplay between literature and psychoanalysis by reading key psychoanalytic texts in... (more)

Formulated Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm

by Peter L. Rudnytsky

In Formulated Experiences, Peter L. Rudnytsky continues his quest for a re-vision of psychoanalysis by coupling his revival of the unjustly neglected figure of Erich Fromm with his latest... (more)

Freud and Forbidden Knowledge

Edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ellen ) Spitz

A collection of essays that all use psychoanalysis to uncover the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the western tradition, from the Bible to Hamlet. (more)

Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory

by Peter L. Rudnytsky

Sandor Ferenczi's mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn-the patient known as R.N. in the Clinical Diary-is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis.... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine

Edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, Rita Charon

In this pioneering volume, Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon bring together distinguished contributors from medicine, psychoanalysis, and literature to explore the multiple intersections between... (more)

Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalyis (Hardback)

by Peter L. Rudnytsky

Fifteen eminent scholars and clinicians (including Andre Haynal, John Gedo, Axel Hoffer and Martin Bergmann) provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of Ferenczi's legacy. The book is divided... (more)

Freud and Oedipus

by Peter L. Rudnytsky

Freud and Oedipus reassesses Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex from the interlocking perceptives of biography, intellectual history, and Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and... (more)

Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces: Literary Uses of D.W.Winnicott

Edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky

Explores the impact of Winnicott's theories on psychoanalytic literary criticism, focussing on his unique view of object-relations. (more)

Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalyis

Edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch

Hungarian-born analyst Sandor Ferenczi was long one of the most influential and overlooked of Sigmund Freud's disciples. This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination by 15 eminent... (more)