Correspondence: Jan Stensson, Ph.D., Fjärdingsmåla 5, Älghult 360 76, Sweden; e-mail: jan-stensson@bredband.net

¹Jan Stensson, Ph.D., is Honorary Member of Istituto de Psicoterapia Analitica di Firenze. Founding Editor, International Forum of Psychoanalysis.

Abstract

In this paper, I will attempt a cross-fertilization between some ideas of the Danish professor of ethics and philosophy of religion, K.E. Løgstrup and some of the therapeutic ideas of Sandor Ferenczi. I will especially discuss the phenomenon of trust, and the response it awakens in the person to whom the trust is directed, especially as evident in the thearapeutic relationship.