Ann D'Ercole tells the story of Clara Mae Thompson, drawing extensively on unpublished archival interviews and correspondence, to provide a full and complex picture of an early American pioneer of psychoanalysis.

Ann D'Ercole is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is both teaching faculty and supervisor. She is also a distinguished visiting faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and recipient of the APA, Division 39, Sexualities and Gender Identities Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Sexualities and Gender Identities in Psychoanalysis. Dr. D'Ercole is in private practice in New York City.

Introduction: Beginnings and Endings 1. Interview with Dr. Clara Thompson; Sigmund Freud Papers: Speaking Her Mind 2. Early Life and Education: From Conformist to Rebel 3. On Becoming a Professional (1916-1920) 4. On Clara Thompson and The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi 5. The Budapest Years: A Laboratory for a New Psychoanalysis