Book Announcement by Christina R. Griffin (USA)

In 1933 the writer Hugo Veigelsberg eulogized his dear friend Sándor Ferencziin Budapest’s daily newspaper. Ferenczi was the leader of a circle of prominent Hungarian intellectuals and artists who gathered in the coffee houses of Budapest to share their work and ideas. Veigelsberg’s eulogy included a description of Ferenczi and his mentor Freud sitting in silence, passing scraps of paper to one another in a Sunday ritual of experimental thought transference. Their correspondence and meetings proved to be a cross-pollination of ideas, and disagreements, during the formative years of psychoanalytic thinking.

Eighty years later, this text captured the imagination of contemporary psychoanalyst Christina Griffin. Through study, travel and self-reflection, she endeavored to learn what she could about Ferenczi’s mind and methods through the eyes of his admirable group of friends.

In The Regulars’ Table: Conversations with Ferenczi, published by IP Books, Griffin engages in an exercise of semi-speculation in the open style of Ferenczi. The book’s narrator intermingles elements of historical correspondence and imagined reverie of the Hungarian intelligentsia with the author’s own transference, anxieties, and desires. Griffin takes us on a journey of place and mind to uncover the untold secrets of the regulars’ table.

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Christina Griffin, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and clinical and forensic psychologist practicing in Southern California. She teaches in the Clinical Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the Co-President for The International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE).

Christina R. Griffin, Ph.D.
Ventura, California
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