They also met other analysts, such as Otto Rank and Karl Abraham.
Following Freud's early speculations about infant experience with the mother, Otto Rank suggested a powerful role in personality development for birth trauma.
Otto Rank was hired that year to collect dues and keep written records of the increasingly complex discussions.
May considered Otto Rank (1884-1939) to be the most important precursor of existential therapy.
Both these follow her to New York and win her back from Otto Rank.
By 1906 the group had grown to sixteen members, including Otto Rank, who was employed as the group's paid secretary.
Otto Rank in 1911 published the first psychoanalytical paper specifically concerned with narcissism, linking it to vanity and self-admiration.
Otto Rank describes the neurotic as someone who, faced with the proposition 'All or nothing', chooses the nothing.
Another affair, with her analyst Otto Rank, would soon commence as well.
His work was built on by Otto Rank in his study of the Doppelgänger.