Inner circle (psychoanalysis)

The inner psychoanalytic circle consists of the closest analytics around Sigmund Freud, including himself.

Through the years, because of the breaking of relations between Freud and many of the psychoanalytics in this circle, many members became separate. However, in the beginning the circle consisted of:
 * Alfred Adler,
 * Carl Jung (president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, 1910-1913),
 * Otto Rank,
 * Sándor Ferenczi (International Psychoanalytical Association президент, 1920),
 * Ernest Jones (president of the International Psychoanalytical Association през 1922-1924; 1934-1949),
 * Wilhelm Reich,
 * Max Eitingon (president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, 1925, 1927-1932),
 * Karl Abraham (president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, 1918, 1925),
 * Hanns Sachs,
 * Wilhelm Stekel,
 * Viktor Tausk,
 * Herbert Silberer
 * and latter the daughter of Sigmund Freud Anna Freud and others.

Annotated bibliography

 * Phyllis Grosskurth, The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1991, ISBN 0201090376
 * The book talks about the history of Freud's secret committee, made to insure the continuation of psychoanalysis' existence.


 * Brenda Webster, Vienna Triangle: A Novel, Wings Press, 2009, ISBN 0916727505
 * The novel tells the story of young woman surveying the historical developement of Frued's psychoanalysis.