His attempts to reduce all psychology to the issue discussed in a certain 1924 book are generally dismissed as quackery and lost him the support of Freud.   
As a trade-school graduate working in a machine shop, he wrote The Artist, which gained him formal training that led to the writing of The Incest Motif in Poetry and Saga in 1912.  He argued that a patient's resistance to psychotherapy should not be worn down but should be recognized as a positive reflection of the patient's will.  This theory was developed after the publication of his Myth of the Birth of the Hero with the help of Freud.  His attempts to reduce all psychology to the issue discussed in a certain 1924 book are generally dismissed as quackery and lost him the support of Freud.   FTP, name this psychologist, who was kicked out of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society after writing The Trauma of Birth.
As a trade-school graduate working in a machine shop, he wrote The Artist, which gained him formal training that led to the writing of The Incest Motif in Poetry and Saga in 1912.  
Otto Rank or Otto Rosenfeld