Main description:

Reviving the legacy of early female psychoanalysts is a hot topic * Clara Thompson's work has been greatly undervalued until now * Explores the history and Thompson's vision for the future of Interpersonal psychoanalysis

Contents:

Introduction 1. Thomspon, Sullivan, Fromm, and Horney 2. Psychoanalytic Institutes and Societies: From Washington-Baltimore to New York City 3. Summers in Provincetown: From Repression to Expression 4. Creating a Tradition: Bringing the Past to the Future 5. Evolution Revolution: Thompson's Psychology of Women 6. The William Alanson White Institute: "It's My Child" 7. Written Out of History: Death by Silence 8. The Legacy of Clara Mabel Thompson and On Touching the Future