Ferenczi Sándor

(born 1873, Miskolc, Hung., Austria-Hungary—died 1933, Budapest, Hung.) Hungarian psychoanalyst. After receiving his M.D. from the University of Vienna and serving as an army doctor, he met Sigmund Freud in 1908 and became a member of Freud's inner circle, the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. He founded the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society in 1913 and began teaching psychoanalysis at the University of Budapest in 1919. He experimented with techniques of therapy and diverged from classic psychoanalytic practice in some respects (e.g., arguing that recovery of traumatic memories was not essential for modifying neurotic behaviour and emphasizing the need for therapists to create a loving, permissive atmosphere). His works include (with Otto Rank; 1924).

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