The Austrian psychotherapist Otto Rank (1884-1939) taught and practiced a form of psychotherapy based upon his own trauma-of-birth theory and will therapy.Otto Rank was born in Vienna on April 22, 188...
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In the following review, Burrow praises Rank's artistic approach to psychoanalysis despite the flaws he finds in Truth and Reality and Will Therapy.
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In the following essay, Brenner examines ways in which Toni Morrison rejected the sexism in Rank's hero myth.
Around Milkman, the hero of her much-admired Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison wrap...
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In the following essay, Rudnytsky presents an overview of Rank's writings on the incest theme.
The first three meetings of the Psychological Wednesday Society for which minutes are extant to...
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In the following essay, Kramer presents a professional analysis of Rank's importance in the formation of psychoanalysis.
Carl Rogers always acknowledged that the thought of Otto Rank inspire...
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In the following essay, Kramer surveys Rank's career, including his shortcomings and his legacy to his field.
At heart a poet and writer, Otto Rank took great pleasure in giving literary gif...
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In the following essay, Karpf discusses ways in which Rank deviated from the Freudian approach to psychoanalysis, focusing on Rank's emphasis on artistic creativity.
Otto Rank was born in Vi...
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In the following essay, Karpf examines major differences in Rank's and Freud's terminologies used to discuss personality theory.
Like all theory which developed as an offshoot of psyc...
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In the following essay, Becker examines the evolution of Rank's ideas about the place of sexuality in psychoanalysis.
It seems to be difficult for the individual to realize that there exists...
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In the following essay, Winter providess background information on the Don Jaun Legend.
Otto Rank was one of the most brilliant and imaginative, yet surely one of the most perplexing members of the...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1976, Menaker argues that Rank's own struggle to cultivate his creative personality led to his emphasis in his work on artistic ingenuity.
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In the following essay, Stolorow and Atwood examine Rank's theories on narcissism in psychoanalysis and the ways in which his work in this area prefigured later trends in the field.
In recen...
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In the following essay, Menaker examines Rank's role in contemporary studies.
Rank's profound philosophical intuition about the totality of human life, about man's dilemma over...
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In the following essay, Watt discusses Rank's version of psychoanalysis in relation to the dramas of Eugene O'Neill.
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Otto Rank
Critical Review by Trigant Burrow
