Psychoanalytic Vocation Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud

Object relations, which emphasizes the importance of the preoedipal period and the infant-mother relationship, is considered by many analysts to be the major development in psychoanalytic theory since Freud. In this reinterpretation of its history Peter L. Rudnytsky focuses on two pivotal figures: Otto Rank, one of Freud's original and most brilliant disciples, who later broke away from psychoanalysis, and D. W. Winnicott, the leading representative of the Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis.Rudnytsky, Peter is the author of 'Psychoanalytic Vocation Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud' with ISBN 9780881633382 and ISBN 0881633380.