Person
Clara Thompson
American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, a close colleague of Harry Stack Sullivan, who at his urging was analysed by Sándor Ferenczi in Budapest and on her return became Sullivan's own analyst. A co-founder and long the executive director of the William Alanson White Institute in New York, she wrote Psychoanalysis: Evolution and Development (1950) and pioneering papers that read the psychology of women in terms of culture rather than anatomy.
Influence
Lineage
- analysed Harry Stack Sullivan
Having gone to Ferenczi for analysis at Sullivan's urging, Thompson attempted an analysis of Sullivan about two years after her return to New York, in the mid-1930s.
- analysed by Sándor Ferenczi
Thompson went to Budapest for analysis with Ferenczi, first in summers from 1928 and then continuously until his death in 1933.
Affinity
- collaborated with Harry Stack Sullivan
Friends and colleagues from the early 1920s, Sullivan and Thompson worked together for the rest of his life, and in 1943 both were among the founders of the New York branch of the Washington School of Psychiatry, later the William Alanson White Institute.
References
- Psychiatrist of America: The Life of Harry Stack Sullivan1982Evidence for a relation