Imre Hermann (1889–1984), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was among the most influential figures of the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis. His career spanned from experimental psychology to psychoanalysis, but his analytical work was also influenced by his early studies in experimental psychology. His research focused on instincts, perception and thinking, creativity, and the methodological issues of psychoanalysis. He considered thinking as organically linked to all mental faculties, thus serving as a common language for the different layers of consciousness. Modern developmental psychology also owes much to his work; he developed such significant theories as the theory of the clinging instinct. He was interested in the psychological roots of creativity and wrote a set of studies about scholars and artists. His works attracted international interest, and several of them were translated into German, French, and Italian.