This collection covers all the topics relevant for understanding the importance of Sándor Ferenczi and his influence on contemporary psychoanalysis. Pre-eminent Ferenczi scholars were solicited to contribute succint reviews of their fields of expertise.

I: Biographical-Historical; Introduction; 1: Amidst hills, creeks and books Sándor Ferenczi's childhood in Miskolc; 2: Ferenczi's Budapest; 3: Ferenczi before Freud; 4: Ferenczi and Freud: Subservient disciple to independent thinker; 5: Ferenczi's analyses with Freud; 6: A fateful quadrangle: Sándor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud, Gizella Palos-Ferenczi, and Elma Palos-Laurvik; 7: Ferenczi in and out of correspondence; 8: Ferenczi and the foundation of the international and Hungarian psychoanalytical societies; 9: Ferenczi in early psychoanalytic circles; 10: Ferenczi's work on war neuroses and its historical context; 11: The figure of Sándor Ferenczi in representative organs of the Hungarian press between 1910 and 1933; 12: Georg Groddeck's influential friendship with Sándor Ferenczi; 13: Ferenczi's patients and their contribution to his legacy; 14: Some things you may want to know before reading Sándor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary; 15: Ferenczi's untimely death; II: Clinical; Introduction; 16: Ferenczi's paradigm shift in trauma theory; 17: Ferenczi's concept of the unwelcome child; 18: Ferenczi's concept of the "wise baby"; 19: Psychological enslavement through identification with the aggressor; 20: Splitting, fragmentation, and psychic agony; 21: Regressing to reality: Finding and listening to the inner world of the traumatised child; 22: Ferenczi's experiments with technique; 23: Ferenczi's dialogue of unconsciouses, mutual analysis, and the analyst's use of self in the shaping of contemporary relational technique; 24: Countertransference and the person of the therapist; III: Echoes; Introduction; 25: The Ferenczi-Balint filiation; 26: Ferenczi and the Independents-Bowlby, Fairbairn, and Winnicott: Towards a third way in British psychoanalysis; 27: Melanie Klein's development of, and divergence from, Sándor Ferenczi's ideas; 28: Sándor Ferenczi and Jacques Lacan: Between orthodoxy and dissidence; 29: Mind your tongue! On Ferenczi's confusion of tongues, Laplanche's general theory of seduction, and other misunderstandings; 30: The influence of Ferenczi on Interpersonal Psychoanalysis; 31: Psychoanalysis and psychosis: Ferenczi's influence at Chestnut Lodge; 32: Echoes of Ferenczi in psychoanalytic self psychology: Ancestor and bridge; 33: Ferenczi's contributions to relational psychoanalysis: The pursuit of mutuality; 34: The influence of Ferenczi's thinking on child psychoanalysis; IV: Applications and Extensions; Introduction; 35: "Eat, bird, or die!" The contribution of Sándor Ferenczi's ideas to the critique of authoritarianism; 36: Against violence: Ferenczi and liberal socialism; 37: From individual to massive social trauma; 38: Hello Baby. In the footprints of Sándor Ferenczi: Welcoming a child into a contemporary family; 39: Sándor Ferenczi's impact on clinical social work and education; 40: Gender, sexuality, and the maternal; 41: Confusion of tongues as a source of verifiable hypotheses; Epilogue