Otto Rank and the Creation of Modern Psychotherapy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 October 2025
- ISBN 9780197698273
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 245x166x29 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 33 b/w images 0
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Short description:
In this book, Robert Kramer argues that Otto Rank, not Sigmund Freud, created modern psychotherapy, which focuses on the therapist-client relationship. Rank's relational approach to therapy can today be found in social work, counseling, and psychotherapy. This book translates Rank's complex thought into language any reader can grasp easily.
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Once considered Sigmund Freud's designated heir, Otto Rank was an interdisciplinary thinker and prodigious author of twenty-two books. After being expelled from Freud's inner circle in 1926--due to Freud's opposition to the pre-Oedipal thesis of The Trauma of Birth (1924)--Rank had a highly productive life as a teacher, psychotherapist, and writer.
In this book, noted Rank scholar Robert Kramer argues that Rank, not Freud, created modern psychotherapy, which focuses on the therapist-client relationship. Rank's "will therapy" and his teaching on relationship and the creative will impacted not only modern psychotherapy but also social work and existential psychology. His influence can particularly be seen in the work of Carl Rogers (Psychotherapy), Jessie Taft and Virginia Robinson (Social Work), and Rollo May and Irvin Yalom (Existential Psychology). A dazzling thinker, Rank influenced many artists and writers, including Samuel Beckett, Salvador Dalí, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Betty Friedan, D. W. Winnicott, and, most significantly, Ernest Becker, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Denial of Death (1973).
Kramer argues that if the 20th century was the century of Freud, the 21st century is shaping up to be the century of Rank as no other psychoanalyst's theories have ever been tested with as much empirical rigor, and across so many different cultures, as those of Rank. This book translates Rank's complex thought into language any reader can grasp easily.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Creating Modern Psychotherapy
Chapter 2: Self-Leadership
Chapter 3: The Denial of Death
Chapter 4: Immortality
Chapter 5: Difference vs. Likeness
Chapter 6: "David and Goliath"
Chapter 7: The Will of the Father
Chapter 8: The Will of the Mother
Chapter 9: Transference vs. Relationship
Chapter 10: Feelings
Chapter 11: How Did Rank Practice as a Therapist?
Chapter 12: Carl Rogers Meets Otto Rank
Chapter 13: Willing = Feeling Alive = Guilt Feeling
Chapter 14: I-Thou ... Thou-I
Chapter 15: Client-Centered Therapy
Chapter 16: The Daimonic, Counter-Willing, and an "Other World"
Chapter 17: Empathy and Agape
Epilogue: "I Was Born Beyond Psychology"
Appendix A: Chronology of Rank's Life and Work
Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography of Selected Writings on Rank
References
List of figures
Foreword
Preface
Creating modern psychotherapy
Self-leadership
The denial of death
Immortality
Difference versus likeness
"David and Goliath"
The will of the father
The will of the mother
Transference versus relationship
Feelings
How did Rank practice therapy?
Carl Rogers meets Otto Rank
Willing = feeling alive = guilt-feeling
I-Thou . . . Thou-I
Client-centered therapy
The daimonic, counter-willing, and an "other world"
Empathy and agape
Epilogue: "I was born beyond psychology"
Chronology of Rank's life and work
Annotated Bibliography of Selected Writings on Rank
Notes
References
Author's Note
Index
