Psychoanalysis In America And The Impact Of The European Intellectual Migration

The Nazis Ban Psychoanalysis.

In October 1933 Nazi Germany labeled psychoanalysis a "Jewish science" and banned it from the Congress of Psychology in Leipzig. The Nazis burned psychoanalytic literature, and practicing psychoanalysts, mostly from Berlin, first joined Sigmund Freud for a brief stint in Vienna or left directly for the United States to save their lives and their practices. Their contributions made a profound impact on American psychology and contributed to the growth of a more influential psychiatric profession in the United States.

The Psychoanalytic Diaspora.

Freud is honored as the genius of psychoanalysis, but not all American academicians or medical psychiatrists were ready to accept his ideas wholeheartedly. In the first third of the century there was a great deal of ambivalence to his ideas in the United States. Other schools of thought, such as behaviorism and experimental psychology, were more...

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