It was decided at the 1908 Salzburg congress on Freudian psychology to create a periodical that reflects the specialization and specificity of psychoanalysis. In 1909 the publisher F. Deuticke launched the Jahrbuch für psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forschungen (Annals of Psychoanalytic and Psychopathological Research), a periodical specializing in psychoanalysis, the first of a series of psychoanalytic publications to appear over the following years. Eugen Bleuler and Sigmund Freud were the editors, and Carl Gustav Jung was in charge of the writing.

With the appearance of this publication, the psychoanalytic movement that had built up around the congresses and in private associations acquired an autonomous literary profile. Previously dispersed in different medical journals, psychoanalytic articles were now grouped together in a single publication and made available not only to medical circles but also to the...