From Budapest to Psychoanalysis: Three Portraits and their Analytic Frames Csillag Veronica
This book follows the personal and professional journeys of three Jewish women from Budapest, originally classmates in the same high school. The book shows how they and their families were marked by…
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This book follows the personal and professional journeys of three Jewish women from Budapest, originally classmates in the same high school. The book shows how they and their families were marked by the Shoah, and explores the impact of the social, cultural and political milieu in which they travelled upon their development as psychoanalysts.Following an introduction by the Hungarian psychoanalyst, Judit Meszaros, who gives a broad historical review of Hungarian Jewry during the Shoah and the Soviet era, the three authors provide autobiographical accounts of their own psychoanalytic evolution and interconnectedness. They describe their motivations for emigrating from Hungary, their early struggles to fit in and their eventual acculturation. The authors explore their coming of age as clinicians in their adopted homelands, and explain how their theoretical orientation and