Person
Manuel Furer
American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute who worked with Margaret Mahler on psychotic children, founding with her a therapeutic nursery in 1950. Their joint research on the symbiotic syndrome led to On Human Symbiosis and the Vicissitudes of Individuation (1968).
- Died
- 2017
- Known for
- Symbiotic psychosis
developed
- Symbiotic psychosis 1968 Furer was Mahler's collaborator on the 1968 study of infantile psychosis, which grew out of their joint work with psychotic children and their mothers.
collaborated with
- Margaret Mahler Mahler and Furer worked together on the treatment and study of psychotic children. Their tripartite mother-child-therapist treatment led to the 1968 volume on infantile psychosis, written by Mahler in collaboration with Furer.