This book follows the personal and professional journeys of three Jewish women from Budapest, originally classmates in the same high school. It shows how they and their families were marked by the Shoah, and explores the impact of the social, cultural and political milieu in which they travelled upon their development as psychoanalysts.

Veronica Csillag is a faculty member and training and supervising analyst at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, a faculty member at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is the author of several psychoanalytic papers, which were published in a variety of journals. She is in private practice in New York City.

Katalin Lanczi was born in Budapest and emigrated to the UK in 1980. She is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Association and the co-director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival. She lectures and teaches widely, and is in private practice in London.

Julianna Vamos was born in Budapest and studied in Paris (Sorbonne Paris 5) for a PhD in clinical psychology and psychopathology. She is a psychoanalyst and member of the Société Psychoanalytique de Paris (SPP).

1. Introduction 2. Trialogue 3. The theater of the psyche 4. Numbers, poetry - psychic truth: A journey from East to West, from mathematics to psychoanalysis 5. The inner touch 6. Afterword: Three voices, interwoven lives, distinctive pathways