[A Rosenfeld seminar in Heidelberg 1981 to 1986. A retrospect]

Rosenfeld led a clinical study group in Heidelberg from 1981 until his death in 1986. His influence on the German psychoanalytic community spread rapidly and widely. The authors, who had been members of the study group, describe their personal experience of Rosenfeld's supervision and how it impacted their own clinical work. They go on to give their personal view of Rosenfeld's great effect on the psychoanalytic community of that time, a time when psychoanalysts eagerly sought help for their treatment of severely disturbed patients in a traumatized post-war nation.