About the editor
Robert Kramer, PhD, is Visiting Professor of Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. As the last Rankian psychoanalyst in the world, he recently retired from practice, but he continues to lecture on the life and work of Otto Rank worldwide. He will speak on Rank in May 2023 at the 3rd World Congress on Existential Psychology in Athens, Greece in 2023. He has lectured on Rank at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna; Corvinus University of Budapest; George Washington University; American University; the American Psychological Association; the International Psychoanalytical Association; the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna; The Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel; the University of Athens Medical School, Greece; the International Institute of Existential and Humanistic Psychology, Beijing; the William Alanson White Institute, New York; the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought in Indianapolis; the Existential-Humanistic Institute, San Francisco; and the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work in Philadelphia.
He has published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Times of Israel (Tel Aviv), and The New European (London). During academic year 2015–2016, he was the inaugural International Chair of Public Leadership at the National University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary. In 2016, he resigned his chair in protest against the corruption of the Orbán regime.
His articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals in the US, the UK and, in translation, in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Spain. His latest article, “Discovering the Existential Unconscious: Rollo May Encounters Otto Rank” (The Humanistic Psychologist, 2023) has been published in translation in Chinese and Russian, and is now being translated into Greek, Turkish, and Hungarian. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (US), founded by Abraham Maslow.
He edited and introduced Otto Rank’s A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures (Princeton University Press, 1996) and co-edited, with E. J. Lieberman, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
He wrote the 2023 afterword (entitled “Reading Becker, Reading Rank”) for the fiftieth anniversary edition of Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death, which won the Pulitzer prize in 1974.
His next book, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2023, is entitled, Carl Rogers, Otto Rank and the Creation of Modern Psychotherapy.
He holds a PhD in leadership, with a specialization in the intellectual history of psychoanalysis, from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management in Washington DC.
He is now collaborating with Budapest and Hollywood filmmakers on a movie about the Rank-Freud conflict — a conflict that shaped the way psychotherapy is practiced today.
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