Chronology: Part II
| 1924 | April 21-23 - 8th Congress if the International Psychoanalytical Association in Salzburg, for the first time in the absence of Freud (Austria). President: Karl Abraham |
| April 27 - Otto Rank's departure for several months in America (USA) | |
| May 14 - Romain Rolland visits Freud in Vienna (France) | |
| July 6 - Serge Leclaire (Liebschutz) born in Strasbourg (France) | |
| September 9 - Dr. Hermine Hug-Hellmuth is murdered by her eighteen-year-old nephew, Rudolph Hug, her sister's illegitimate child whom she took care of after her sister's death (Austria) | |
| 1925 | February 24 - The Viennese municipality, by decree, forbids Theodor Reik to practice psychoanalysis (Austria) |
| April - First publication of the future review L'Evolution psychiatrique, Psychanalyse—psychologie clinique (Psychiatric Evolution, Psychoanalysis—Clinical Psychology) edited by Angélo Hesnard and René Laforgue (France) | |
| June 7 - Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (S.P.I.) founded by Marco Levi Bianchini. The journal Archivio Generale di Neurologia, Psichiatria e Psicoanalisi becomes its official mouthpiece (Italy) | |
| June 20 - Josef Breuer dies in Vienna (Austria) | |
| July - Melanie Klein is invited to London where she gives a series of six conferences in English on "Frühanalyse" (Great Britain) | |
| August 14 - The Narkompros (Ministry of Public Instruction) orders the closing of Detski Dom (Children's Home), founded and directed by Véra Schmidt (Russia) | |
| September 2-5 - 9th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Bad Homburg (Germany). President: Karl Abraham. Training Committee founded by Max Eitingon, who becomes president and states the rules of supervision | |
| September 30 - Freud begins the analysis of princess Marie Bonaparte; he writes of her to Sándor Ferenczi on October 18: "She not at all an aristocrat, rather ein Mensch and the work with her is going marvelously." (France) | |
| October - Rudolph M. Loewenstein settles in Paris as a didactician. He eventually becomes the analyst of Sacha Nacht, Jacques Lacan, and Daniel Lagache (France) |
| December 15 - Robert J. Stoller born in Crestwood, New York (USA) | |
| December 25 - Karl Abraham dies in Berlin. Freud writes to Ernest Jones five days later: "Abraham's death was without a doubt the biggest loss that could hit us, and it hit us. I called him, in jest, in certain letters 'mon rocher de bronze.' I felt reassured in the absolute trust he inspired in me as well as all the others. I applied to him the words of Horace: 'Integer vitae scelerisque purus' (The onewhose life has integrity and is without reproach). Max Eitingon succeeds him in the presidency of the IPA | |
| Lehrinstitut der Wiener Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung (Training Institute of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society) is created by the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society under the direction of Helene Deutsch, Anna Freud, and Siegfried Bernfeld. The committee consists of P. Federn, H. Nunberg, W. Reich, and E. Hitschmann (Austria) | |
| The analytical cure is recognized by the new Prussian enactment on honorarium and the German general convention of physicians (Germany) | |
| Adolf Josef Storfer succeeds Otto Rank as director of the Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Verlag. Max Eitingon, Sandor Rado, and Sándor Ferenczi replace Rank at the editorial desk of the Internationale Zeitschrift für (ärztliche) Psychoanalyse | |
| Freud publishes Selbstdarstellung (An Autobiographical Study, 1925d [1924]) | |
| 1926 | January 21 - Freud publishes Hemmung, Symptom und Angst (Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, 1926d [1925]) |
| March 24 - Geheimnisse einer Seele (Mysteries of a Soul), first film on psychoanalysis, produced by G. W. Pabst, presented in Berlin (Germany) | |
| April 13 - Last meeting between Otto Rank and Freud, who writes to Sándor Ferenczi: "I found no motive to show a particular tenderness, at the time of his parting visit; I was frank and hard. But we don't have to put a cross on him." | |
| April 24 - The Berliner Psychoanalytische Vereinigung becomes the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (D.P.G.) (Germany) | |
| August 1 - First Conference of Psychoanalysts in the French Language (Geneva), presided over by Raymond de Saussure (Geneva) with reports by René Laforgue (Paris) on "Schizophrenia and Schizonoia" and by Charles Odier (Geneva), "Contribution to the Study of Superego and Moral Phenomenon." The creation of a Linguistic Commission is decided upon to unify French psychoanalytic vocabulary (Switzerland) | |
| September - Freud publishes Die Frage der Laienanalyse (The Question of Lay Analysis, 1926e) | |
| September - Sigmund Freud, a biography by Honorio Delgado, published (Peru) | |
| September - Melanie Klein leaves Berlin for London (Great Britain) | |
| September 22 - Sándor Ferenczi leaves for America for a six-month stay (USA) |
| September 28 - The Psychoanalytical Clinic founded in London with the donation of an ex-patient, Pryns Hopkins. Ernest Jones states: "The team includes a director, myself, an assistant director, Dr. Edward Glover, nine physicians, the Doctors Bryan, Cole, Eder, Herford, Inman, Payne, Rickman, Riggall and Stofddart, with five assistants" (Great Britain) | |
| October - The Wolf Man begins analysis again with Ruth Mack Brunswick | |
| November 4 - Société psychanalytique de Paris founded by Marie Bonaparte, Eugénie Sokolnicka, Angélo Hesnard, René Allendy, Adrien Borel, René Laforgue, Rudolph Loewenstein, Georges Parcheminey, and Edouard Pichon (France) | |
| November 23 - A circular letter written by Anna Freud under her father's dictation reestablishes the Rundbriefe (circular letters), and the Secret Committee acts henceforth as the "central management of the International Psychoanalytical Association" | |
| November 28 - Freud is named Honorary Member of the Swiss Society of Psychiatry in place of Emil Kraepelin | |
| Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik founded by Heinrich Meng (Germany) and Ernst Schneider (Switzerland) | |
| Almanach der Psychoanalyse founded and published by the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag (International Psychoanalytical Publishers). Thirteen volumes appear before the Nazis liquidate the publishing house in 1938 | |
| 1927 | January 10 - Joseph Sandler born in Cape Town (South Africa) |
| April 10 - Schloss Tegel—Psychoanalytische Klinik Sanatorium (Tegel Castle—Psychoanalytical Clinic Sanitorium) founded by Ernst Simmel (Germany) | |
| June 25 - Revue française de psychanalyse (French Review of Psychoanalysis) founded (France) | |
| September - Tenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Innsbruck (Austria). President: Max Eitingon | |
| Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise founded in São Paulo by Durval B. Marcondes. President: Franco da Rocha. It will be recognized provisionally in 1929 by the International Psychoanalytical Association but without final establishment (Brazil) | |
| Freud publishes Die Zukunft einer Illusion (The Future of an Illusion, 1927c) | |
| The Burlingham-Rosenfeld/Hietzing Schule (Burlingham-Rosenfeld School or Hietzing School) founded in Vienna by Dorothy Burlingham and Eva Rosenfeld, a private school placed under Anna Freud's care (Austria) | |
| Melanie Klein becomes member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society (Great Britain) | |
| 1928 | September 30 - Ernst Simmel inaugurates the new premises of the Berliner Psychoanalytische Institut (BPI) (Berlin Psychoanalytical Institute), arranged under Ernst Freud's direction (Germany) |
| October - Sándor Ferenczi gives conferences in Spain. He writes to Georg Groddeck on October 17: "Aside from |
| that, the doctors, here, are still half-Breuerians, already half-Jungians, without having ever been Freudians." (Spain) | |
| Tokyo Psychoanalytic Institute founded by Kenji Otsuki. It is recognized by the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1931 (Japan) | |
| A subsidiary of the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de São Paulo founded in Rio by V. Rocha, Durval B. Marcondes, and Julio Pires Porto-Carrero (Brazil) | |
| SchweizerischeÄrtegesellschaft für psychoanalyse (Swiss Medical Association for Psychoanalysis) founded by Emil Oberholzer and Rudolf Brun. It is never recognized by the IPA and dissolves in 1938 (Switzerland) | |
| 1929 | February 10 - Frankfurter Institut der "Südwestdeutsche Psychoanalytische Arbeitsgemeinschaft" (Frankfurt Institute of Psychoanalysis) founded by Karl Landauer, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Heinrich Meng. It is tied to the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (Germany) and its role is to dissemination the ideas of psychoanalysis by didactic analyses and theoretical courses at the university without therapeutic training (Germany) |
| July 28-31 - Eleventh Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Oxford (Great Britain). President: Max Eitingon. The New York Psychoanalytical Society, through the intervention of A. A. Brill, its president, agrees to welcome analysts who are not doctors (USA). La Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de São Paulo is recognized provisionally (Brazil) | |
| August - Freud writes Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930a [1929]), which is published at the end of December but dated 1930 | |
| October 24 - The stock market crash in New York ruins Max Eitingon | |
| December 25 - Sándor Ferenczi distances himself from Freud and writes to him: "Psychoanalysis practices too unilaterally the analysis of obsessional neurosis and the analysis of character, that is to say, the psychology of the ego, neglecting the organic-hysteric base if the analysis; the cause is the overestimation of fantasy—and the underestimation of traumatic reality in pathogenesis." | |
| The first translation in Japanese of Freud's work published (Japan) | |
| Lehrinstitut der Wiener Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung founded from a department for borderline and psychotic patients by Paul Schilder; Eduard Bibring succeeds its management after Schilder's emigration to America (Austria) | |
| Adolf J. Storfer founds the bi-monthly journal Die Psychoanalytische Bewegung at the International Psychoanalytical Publishers. It is published until December 1933 (Austria) | |
| Franz Alexander emigrates from Germany and settles in Chicago (USA) | |
| 1930 | May 9 - Otto Rank excluded from the list of honorary members of the American Psychoanalytical Association at the time of his business meeting during the 1st International |
| Congress of Mental Hygiene in Washington (May 5-10) | |
| August 28 - Anna Freud accepts the Goethe Prize from the town of Frankfurt-am-Main for her father (Germany) | |
| September 12 - Freud's mother, Amalia (Malka) Freud, née Nathanson, dies in Vienna, at the age of ninety-five | |
| Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Society founded. It is comprised of, among other members, Ernest E. Hadley, Adolf Meyer, Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara Thompson, and William A. White, and is accepted as Constituent Society by the American Psychoanalytic Association | |
| Psychoanalytical Institute founded in The Hague (Netherlands) | |
| The Psychopathology of Everyday Life translated into Japanese by Kiyoyasu Marui | |
| 1931 | August 22 - A Study Circle, which will become the Nordisk Psykoanalytisk Samfund (Nordic Psychoanalytical Society) founded in 1933 at the initiative of the Dane Sigurd Naesgaard, the Norwegian Harald Schjelderup, the Finn Vriö Kulovesi, and the Swede Alfhild Tamm |
| September 24 - The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the first on the American continent, founded with the support of Abram A. Brill. Sándor Radó, who just emigrated, becomes the director | |
| October 25 - A commemorative plaque is placed on Freud's birthplace at Pribor-Freiberg at the initiative of Dr. Emmanuel Windholz, Jaroslav Stuchlik, and Nicolaï Ossipow | |
| November - Angel Garma, after her training in Berlin, settles in Madrid until 1936 | |
| December - Henri Claude creates the post Head of Laboratory of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at the Clinic of Mental Illnesses at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. Sacha Nacht holds the post | |
| December 18 - Official opening of the Budapest Psychoanalytical Polyclinic, 12 Mészàros Street, founded with the support of Frédéric and Vilma Kovács. It will be directed by Sándor Ferenczi with Michael Balint as his assistant who will succeed him in 1933 | |
| Richard F. Sterba, at the suggestion of Adolf J. Storfer, undertakes the publication of the first dictionary of psychoanalysis (Handwörterbuch der Psychoanalyse) of which the first installment will be published on May 6,1936, for Freud's eightieth birthday | |
| First translation in Brazil of a Freud work, Five Lectures, by Durval B. Marcondes and J. Barbosa Correia | |
| Edoardo Weiss publishes Elementi di psicoanalisi in Milan (Italy) with a preface by Sigmund Freud | |
| Wilhelm Reich founds the German Association for a Sexual Proletarian Policy (Sex-Pol) | |
| Martin Freud succeeds Adolf J. Storfer as commercial director of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag | |
| 1932 | June - The Psychoanalytic Quarterly founded by Dorian Feigenbaum, Bertram D. Lewin, Johns Hopkins, and Gregory Zilboorg, all members of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society |
| September 4-7 - Twelfth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Wiesbaden (Germany) |
| President: Max Eitingon. Affiliation of the Tokyo Psychoanalytical Institute and of the Chicago and Washington-Baltimore Societies. Ernest Jones is elected president of the IPA, Johan H.W. van Ophuijsen and Anna Freud remain vice-presidents, A.A. Brill is named third vicepresident. Sándor Ferenczi presents his lecture "The Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child. The Language of Tenderness and of Passion" | |
| September 7 - Date of the medical thesis presented by Jacques Lacan De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports à la personnalité (Of paranoid psychosis in its relationship to personality) (France) | |
| October 1 - Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) founded in Rome by Edoardo Weiss, Nicola Perrotti, and Emilio Servadio. Marco Levi Bianchini becomes honorary president. It is recognized by the IPA in 1935. The first issue of the Rivista italiana di psicoanalisi is published in April 1935, and immediately forbidden by the fascist regime. The Society is dissolved in 1938 | |
| Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis founded by Franz Alexander, who remains president until 1952. Karen Horney, recently emigrated from Berlin, becomes the associate director | |
| Die Psycho-Analyse des Kindes (The Psycho-Analysis of Children) by Melanie Klein published | |
| Heisaku Kosawa (Japan) visits Freud and presents an account of his theory of the Ajase Complex | |
| American Psychoanalytic Association is reorganized into a federation of associations. A "Council on Professional Training" created (USA) | |
| Publication of the first Czech Directory of Psychoanalysis, under the direction of E. Windholz (Czechoslovakia) | |
| Verwahrloste Jugend (Wayward Youth) by August Aichhorn published (Austria) | |
| 1933 | January 30 - Adolf Hitler is elected chancellor of the Reich (Germany) |
| April 8 - Francisco Franco da Rocha dies in Amparo, State of São Paulo (Brazil) | |
| May 10 - Freud's books are burned in Berlin | |
| May 22 - Sándor Ferenczi dies in Budapest (Hungary) | |
| June 21 - Carl G. Jung becomes president of the AllgemeineÄrztliche Gesellschaft für Psychoterapie (AAGP) after Ernst Kretschmer's resignation (Germany) | |
| November 18 - Felix Boehm and Carl Müller-Braunschweig take the presidency of the Berlin Psychoanalytical Society, Max Eitingon having been dismissed as a Jew (Germany) | |
| December - Psykoanalytisk Samfund founded, with the Swede Poul Bjerre, the Dane Sigurd Naesgaard, and the Norwegian Irgens Stromme (Denmark) | |
| December 31 - Max Eitingon leaves Berlin for Jerusalem, where he founds the Palestine Psychoanalytical Society with Mosche Wulff (emigrated from Berlin the same year), Ilja Schalit, Anna Smelianski, Gershon and Gerda Barag, Vicky Ben-Tal, Ruth Jaffe, etc. (Israel) | |
| The Prague Psychoanalytical Study Group founded and directed by Frances Deri until 1935, the year of his emigration to Los Angeles. Otto Fenichel succeeds him until 1938 (Czechoslovakia) |
| Johan H.W. van Ophuijsen resigns from the Netherlands Psychoanalytical Society (NVP) to found the Netherlands Society of Psychoanalysts (VPN) with Van Emden and Maurits Katan (Netherlands) | |
| Freud publishes Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse (New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, 1933a [1932]) | |
| Charakteranalyse (Character Analysis) and Die Massenspsychologie des Faschismus (The Mass Psychology of Fascism) by Wilhelm Reich published (Austria) | |
| Life and Works of Edgar Poe: A Psycho-Analytical Study by Marie Bonaparte published | |
| 1934 | January 10 - Institute of Psychoanalysis inaugurated in Paris. Director: Marie Bonaparte (France) |
| February 19 - Nikolai Ossipov dies in Prague (Czech Republic) | |
| May 19 - Eugenia Sokolnicka-Kutner commits suicide in Paris (France) | |
| June 11 - Georg Groddeck dies in Knonau bei Zürich (Switzerland) | |
| August 26-31 - Thirteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Lucerne (Switzerland). President: Ernest Jones. Wilhelm Reich is expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association. A Dano-Norwegian association and a Finn-Swedish association Svensk-Finska Psykoanalytiksla Foereningen (Otto Fenichel, Ludwig Jekels) are created | |
| 1935 | May 15 - Freud is named Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Medicine of London (Great Britain) |
| October 24 - Edith Jacobsohn, militant in the socialist resistance group Neu Beginnen (New Beginnings) is arrested and imprisoned (Germany) | |
| December 1 - Meeting of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society, under Ernest Jones's presidency. The Jewish members leave "voluntarily" (freiwillig Rücktritt) (Germany) | |
| 1936 | March 28 - The Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag repository in Leipzig is sequestered by the Nazis (Germany) |
| April - A psychoanalytical polyclinic founded in Paris by John Leuba and Michel Cénac (France) | |
| May - Deutsches Institut für Psychologische Forschung und Psychotherapie (1936-1945) founded under the direction of Matthias Heinrich Göring. Felix Boehm is named dean (Germany) | |
| May 5 - Ernest Jones inaugurates the new home of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association, 7 Berggasse, designated for Association meetings, the Viennese Psychoanalytical Institute, consultation, and a library | |
| May 6 - Celebration of Freud's eightieth birthday | |
| June 30 - Freud is named "Foreign Member, Royal Society" of Great Britain, a supreme scientific honor in England (Great Britain) | |
| July - Beginning of the civil war in Spain (1936-1939), followed by Franco's dictatorship | |
| August 2-8 - Fourteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Marienbad (Czechoslovakia). |
| President: Ernest Jones. The Czech Study Group is officially recognized. The American Psychoanalytical Association obtains exclusive power over its composition in North America (exclusion of non-doctors) | |
| Anna Freud publishes Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen (The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense) | |
| 1937 | January - Marie Bonaparte acquires the correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess |
| February 5 - Lou Andreas-Salomé dies in his house "Loufried" in Göttingen (Germany) | |
| May 30 - Alfred Adler dies in Aberdeen, Scotland (Great Britain) | |
| July 27 - The Russian Psychoanalytic Society halts its activities. Twenty years of silence on psychoanalysis will follow in Russia | |
| December 30 - Julio Pires Porto-Carrero dies in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) | |
| Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society founded (USA) | |
| Adelheid L. Koch, recent émigrée from Germany endorsed by Ernest Jones and Otto Fenichel (her analyst), begins the didactic analyses of Durval Marcondes, Darcy Mendonça Uchôa, Virginia Bicudo, Flavio Dias, Frank Philips, etc., in São Paolo (Brazil) | |
| Freud publishes "Die endliche und die unendliche Analyse" ("Analysis Terminable and Interminable", 1937c) | |
| 1938 | March 10 - The German Army invades Austria. On March 12, Vienna is occupied and Hitler arrives on the 14th. March 15, the "Anschluss," the connecting of Austria to Germany, is proclaimed |
| March 20 - Vienna Psychoanalytic Society dissolved in the presence of Sigmund Freud; the commissioner appointed by the NSDAP (National Socialist [Nazi] Party), Dr. Anton Sauerwald; Ernest Jones, President of the International Psychoanalytical Association; Marie, Princess of Greece, Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association; Anna Freud, Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association and Vice-President of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society; Carl Müller-Braunschweig, Secretary of the German Society of Psychoanalysis and administrative council member of the German Institute of Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Berlin; Paul Federn, Vice-President of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society, Eduard Hitschmann, Edward Bibring, Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, Robert Waelder, Willi Hoffer, B. Steiner, members of the board of directors; and Martin J. Freud, of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag. The Society will be officially liquidated under an ordinance of the Magistrate of the city of Vienna, September 1, 1938 | |
| March 22 - Freud notes in his journal: "Anna bei Gestapo" ("Anna with Gestapo") | |
| May - Hanns Sachs founds American Imago in Boston, Massachusetts. The first issue will be published in November 1939 (USA) | |
| May 29 - Bruno Bettelheim is arrested by the Gestapo. He spends ten and a half months in Dachau then in Buchenwald, where meets Ernst Federn again (Austria) | |
| June 4 - Freud leaves Vienna on June 4 with Martha, Anna, Paula Fischl, and Dr. Josephine Stross. Arriving in |
| Paris the next day, he stays with Marie Bonaparte before leaving for London, where he arrives on June 6 | |
| June 23 - Three secretaries of the Royal Society (Sir Albert Steward, A. V. Hill, Griffith Davies) bring Freud the Charter Book to sign (Great Britain) | |
| June 23 - Freud receives Stefan Zweig, who presents to him Salvador Dali. Freud remarks on Dali's "candid and fanatical eyes and his undeniable technical mastery" | |
| August 1-5 - Fifteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Paris (France). President: Ernest Jones. The American Psychoanalytic Association appeals and assumes the right, on account of the war and citing the "1938 rule," to total autonomy concerning standards in the United States, in excluding non-doctors, with the exception of those who had trained before 1938 | |
| September 27 - Freud and Anna move to 20 Maresfield Gardens, which Martha and Paula Fischl fix up in two days | |
| November 19 - The Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (D.P.G.) is dissolved and carries on as Arbeitsgruppe A (Work Group A) within the Deutsches Institut für psychologische Forschung und Psychotherapie (Germany) | |
| 1939 | March 10 - Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion: Drei Abhandlungen (Moses and Monotheism: Three Essays, 1939a [1934-38]) published in Amsterdam |
| September 1 - Hitler invades Poland. Beginning of the Second World War | |
| September 23 - Sigmund Freud dies before midnight after morphine injections given at his request by his doctor Max Schur, after a day and a half in a coma. He is cremated on the September 26 at the Golder's Green Crematorium | |
| October 31 - Otto Rank (Rosenfeld) dies in New York (USA) | |
| Franz Alexander publishes the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, with Flanders Dunbar, Stanley Cobb, Carl Binger, and others (USA) | |
| Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis founded (USA) | |
| Ichpsychologie und Anpassungsproblem (Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation) by Heinz Hartmann published (Germany) | |
| 1940 | June 25 - Wilhelm Stekel commits suicide in London (Great Britain) |
| September 31 - Edouard Claparède dies in Geneva (Switzerland) | |
| October 10 - Melbourne Institute for Psychoanalysis founded (Australia), inaugurated by Judge Foster at 111 Collins Street. Due to the generosity of Miss Lorna Traill, the first meeting takes place at the home of Hal Maudsley, a prominent figure in Australian psychiatry | |
| The Detroit Psychoanalytic Society founded by Richard F. Sterba with Leo H. Bartemeier and Klara Happel-Pinkus. Sterba is president from 1946 to 1952 (USA) |
| Carl G. Jung retires from the AllgemeineÄrztliche Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie (AAGP) (Germany) | |
| Psicoanalisis de los sueños (Psychoanalysis of Dreams) by Angel Garma published (Argentina) | |
| Abriss der psychoanalyse ("An Outline of Psychoanalysis," 1940a [1938]) by Sigmund Freud published | |
| 1941 | February 13 - Minna Bernays dies in London (Great Britain) |
| April 2 - Karen Horney is excluded from the didacticians of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. She will found the Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis, accompanied by Clara M. Thompson, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Erich Fromm. She will also organize the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, where she will be Dean until her death in 1952 | |
| December 7 - Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese aircraft | |
| Abram Kardiner leaves the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (USA) | |
| 1942 | February 22 - Stefan Zweig commits suicide in Petropolis (Brazil) |
| July 12 - René Allendy dies in Montpellier (France) | |
| December 15 - Associacion Psicoanalitica de Argentina (APA) founded by Angel Garma, who becomes the first president, with Celes Ernesto Càrcamo, Guillermo Ferrari Hardoy, Marie Glas de Langer, Enrique Pichon-Rivière, and Arnaldo Rascovsky | |
| San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society founded by Otto Fenichel and others (USA) | |
| Freud's sisters Marie (Mitzi), Pauline (Pauli), and Rosa killed in deportation | |
| Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis founded by Karl Menninger in the hospice of the Menninger Clinic (USA) | |
| 1943 | January 27 - Susan Isaacs presents her writing on the "Nature and Function of Fantasy," first contribution to Controversial Discussions that oppose the students of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein before an ad hoc commission of the British Psycho-Analytical Society until 1944 (Great Britain) |
| February 2 - The German Army surrenders in Stalingrad (USSR) | |
| February 5 - Adolfine (Dolfi) Freud killed by the Nazis in the Treblinka concentration camp | |
| May 13 - John Rittmeister is guillotined by the Nazis in Berlin-Plötzensee (Germany) | |
| July 3 - Max Eitingon dies in Jerusalem (Israel) | |
| Psychoanalytical Institute of the Associacion Psicoanalitica de Argentina (APA), the Revista de Pscicoanàlisis (Arnaldo Rascovsky is the first editor-in-chief), and the Biblioteca de Psicoanálisis founded (Argentina) | |
| The Palestine Psychoanalytic Society, founded in 1933, is recognized by the IPA (Israel) | |
| William Alanson White Institute, the New York branch of the Washington School of Psychiatry, founded by Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara Thompson, Frieda Fromm-Reichman, and Eric Fromm, who leave Karen Horney (USA) |
| Publication of the New German-English Psychoanalytical Vocabulary, by Alix Strachey-Sargant, and of the first volume of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (SE). Twenty-four volumes are published between 1943 and 1974 (Great Britain) | |
| Finno-Swedish Psychoanalytic Society dissolved after the death of Yrjö Kulovesi (Finland-Sweden) | |
| Az ember õsi össztönei Pantheon (The Filial Instinct) by Imre Hermann published (Hungary) | |
| 1944 | June 6 - Landing of Allied troops in Normandy (D-Day) (France) |
| August 25 - Liberation of Paris (France) | |
| December 30 - Romain Rolland dies in Vézelay (France) | |
| Adelheid L. Koch founds the Grupo Psicanalitico de São Paulo, and young psychiatrists in Rio found the Centro de Estudos Juliano Moreira (Brazil) | |
| Sándor Radó is dismissed as Education Director then stripped from the list of didacticians at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute | |
| Bruno Bettelheim is named director of the Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago (USA) | |
| The Psychology of Women. A Psychoanalytic Interpretation by Helene Deutsch published. The second volume appears in 1945 | |
| 1945 | January 15 - The Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, founded by Sándor Radó, who becomes director, with Abram Kardiner, George Daniels, and David Levy. This Clinic is the first psychoanalytic institution affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association to be created in a university and medical school(USA) |
| January 27 - Karl Landauer dies in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (Germany) | |
| April 30 - Adolf Hitler's suicide, after Benito Mussolini's execution on April 24 | |
| May 4 - Harald Schultz-Hencke (with Werner Kemper) founds and becomes the director ofthe Institut für Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie (IPP) , to teach "neoanalysis," as opposed to classic psychoanalysis (Germany) | |
| May 8 - Allied victory proclaimed, ending the Second World War in Europe | |
| August 6 - The first American atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima (Japan) | |
| October - The Grupo Psicanalitico de São Paulo is accepted provisionally as Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de São Paulo (SBPSP) by Ernest Jones (Brazil) | |
| October 19 - The Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (DPG) is recreated (as the Berliner Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft until December 3, 1950) with Carl Müller-Braunschweig as the first president; Felix Boehm, his deputy; and Werner Kemper as third member of the bureau (Germany) | |
| November - The Neederlandsche Vereeniging voor Psychoanalyse (Netherlands Society for Psychoanalysis) is |
| recreated. The Amsterdam Institute of Psychoanalysis is founded in 1946 (Netherlands) | |
| December 1 - The dissolution of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society is appealed in 1938 | |
| The review The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (USA) created by Anna Freud, Heinz Hartmann, and Ernst Kris (USA) | |
| The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis by Otto Fenichel published (USA) | |
| 1946 | February 16 - A provisional executive committee established for the re-creation of the Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung (Vienna Psychoanalytical Society). President: August Aichhorn (Austria) |
| April 15 - The Sigmund Freud Copyrights Limited is established by Freud's beneficiary executors, Ernst, Martin, and Anna, in order to collect the rights and to distribute them to Freud's grandchildren (Great Britain) | |
| May 14 - First issue of the journal Psyché, Revue internationale de Psychanalyse et des Sciences de l'Homme (Psyche, International Review of Psychoanalysis and the Sciences of Man), created by Maryse Choisy. It is published until 1963 (France) | |
| July 22 - Otto Fenichel dies in Los Angeles (USA) | |
| July 25 - First post-war congress of French language psychoanalysts, in Montreux (Switzerland) | |
| December 24 - Maurice Dugautiez and Fernand Lechat found the Belgian Association of Psychoanalysts under the patronage of the Paris Society. It will be recognized by the IPA in 1947 (Belgium) | |
| The Indian Psychoanalytic Society publishes a journal entitled Samiksa (India) | |
| The Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis founded (USA) | |
| Montreal Psychoanalytic Club (or Cercle psychanalytique de Montréal) founded by Miguel Prados (Canada) | |
| Ernest Jones resigns from his post at the British Psycho-Analytical Society (Great Britain) | |
| The Psychopathology and Psychotherapy Society founded by Ion Popesco-Sibiu and Doctor Constantin Vlad (Romania) | |
| The Society for the Study of Psychoanalysis is recreated by Theodor Dosuzkov, but it will be forced to dissolve in 1950 (Czech Republic) | |
| The Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) is recreated by Nicola Perrotti, Emilio Servadio, Cesare Musatti, and Alessandra Tomasi di Palma di Lampedusa-Wolf Stomersee. The first National Congress of Psychoanalysis is organized in Rome (Italy) | |
| The American Psychoanalytic Association reorganized into a "Board on Professional Standards," responsible for all the affairs of analytical training, and an "Executive Council," responsible for membership and practical problems (USA) | |
| 1947 | January 10 - Hanns Sachs dies in Boston (USA) |
| May 9 - Institut für Psychotherapie founded in Berlin by Felix Boehm (Germany) | |
| November 11 - Ernst Simmel dies in Los Angeles (USA) |
| The journal Psyche. Jahrbuch für Tiefenpsychologie und Menschenkunde in Forschung und Praxis (Annals for Depth Psychology and Human Sciences, Research and Practice) founded by Alexander Mitscherlich, Hans Kunz, and Felix Schottlaender (Germany) | |
| Instituto Brasileiro de Psicanálise (IBP) founded in Rio de Janeiro to accomodate the arrival of foreign analysts (Brazil) | |
| The first Greek psychoanalytical group, centered around the princess Bonaparte, founded by Andreas Embirikos and Demetrios Kouretas (Greece) | |
| The Norwegian-Danish society recreated by Harald Schjelderup, Trygve Braatøy, and Hjørdis Simonsen. It remains active until 1953 (Norway-Denmark) | |
| The Dutch Association of Psychoanalysis founded by Westerman Holstijn and Van der Hoop (Netherlands) | |
| Anna Freud and her collaborators and the British Psychoanalytic Society reach a common agreement that the International Journal of Psychoanalysis is the official mouthpiece of the IPA, but the British Psychoanalytic Society remains the guardian of the journal and it continues tobe published by a British editor | |
| Wiener Arbeitskreis für Tiefenpsychologie (Viennese Work Circle for Depth Psychology) founded by Igor Caruso (Austria) | |
| 1948 | March 2 - Abraham Arden Brill dies in New York (USA) |
| October 12 - Susan Isaacs-Sutherland dies in London (Great Britain) | |
| December - Arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Werner Kemper, analyzed by Carl Müller-Braunschweig, supervised by Felix Boehm, Otto Fenichel, Jenö Hárnik, and Ernst Simmel, comes to complete the instructional work undertaken by Mark Burke, who arrived on February 2 (Brazil) | |
| The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychoanalyse, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Tiefenpsychologie, an organization covering all the tendencies of depth psychology (Jungians and Adlerians), founded by W. Bitter (Germany) | |
| The Revue Française de Psychanalyse (French Review of Psychoanalysis) begins publication again at the Presses Universitaires de France (France) | |
| Palestine Psychoanalytic Society becomes the Israel Psychoanalytic Society (Israel) | |
| The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) is founded by Theodor Reik. It becomes official in 1950 (USA) | |
| The journal Psiche founded by Nicola Perrotti (Italy) | |
| 1949 | July 15-17 - Sixteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, first post-war congress, in Zurich (Switzerland). President: Ernest Jones, succeeded by Leo Bartemeier: the beginning of alternating presidents from Europe andNorth America. Affiliation of the Argentine Psychoanalytical Association (APA) and the Chilean Association of Psychoanalysis. A provisional admission for the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (DPG) to the IPA is decided. To this date, twelve societies are affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association (APA): New York, Washington-Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia-Society, Topeka, |
| Detroit, San Francisco, Columbia University, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Philadelphia-Association. | |
| October 13 - August Aichhorn dies in Vienna (Austria) | |
| The Basic Neurosis. Oral Regression and Psychic Masochism by Edmund Bergler published (USA) | |
| Trattato di psicoanalisi by Cesare Musatti published (Italy) | |
| 1950 | May 4 - Paul Federn, diagnosed with cancer, commits suicide in New York |
| May 31 - Johan H.W. van Ophuijsen dies in Detroit (USA) | |
| June 10 - The Deutsche Psychoanalytische Vereinigung (D.P.V.) founded by Carl Müller-Braunschweig, followed by the creation of the Karl Abraham Institut (Germany) | |
| The Society for Psychoanalytic Medicine of Southern California founded with Franz Alexander, Samuel Eisenstein, Martin Grotjahn, etc. | |
| First World Conference in Psychiatry in Paris organized by Henri Ey, with the participation of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein | |
| The British Journal of Delinquency (later The British Journal of Criminology) founded by Edward Glover (Great Britain) | |
| Sigmund Freud, Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse, Briefe an Wilhelm Fließ, Abhandlungen und Notizen aus den jahren 1887-1902, edited by M. Bonaparte, A. Freud, and E. Kris, published in London by Imago (1950a [1887-1902]) | |
| Childhood and Society by Erik H. Erikson published (USA) | |
| Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle toward Self-Realization by Karen Horney published (USA) | |
| 1951 | August - 17th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Amsterdam (Netherlands). President: Leo Bartemeier. Definitive acceptance of the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de São Paulo (SBPSP) (Brazil) and the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Vereinigung (D.P.V.) (Germany). Heinz Hartmann is elected president |
| November 2 - Martha Freud-Bernays dies | |
| December 4 - Beginning of the Mrs. Clark-Williams trial in Paris; she is accused of the illegal practice of medicine, is acquitted March 31, 1952, but is found guilty in an appeal in June 1953 in the "franc symbolique" (France) | |
| The Western New England Psychoanalytic Society founded (USA) | |
| The Rio de Janeiro Society of Psychoanalysis founded by Alcyon Baer Bahia, Danilo Perestrello, Marialzira Perestrello, and Walderedo Ismael de Oliveira, called the "Argentines." It is not recognized by the IPA (Brazil) | |
| The Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic (21 Maresfield Gardens, London) founded by Anna Freud in collaboration with Helene Ross and Dorothy Burlingham (Great Britain) | |
| Sydney Institute of Psychoanalysis founded by Roy Coupland Winn with Andrew Peto, originally from Hungary (Australia) |
| Maternal Care and Mental Health by John Bowlby published (Great Britain) | |
| 1952 | June 17 - The Institut de Psychanalyse de Paris (Paris Institute of Psychoanalysis) founded under the direction of Sacha Nacht |
| December 4 - Karen Horney-Danielsen dies in New York (USA) | |
| Kurt Eissler creates the Anna Freud Foundation to profit the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and the Hampstead Clinic (USA) | |
| Psychoanalysis, the first journal representing an institution of non-medical training, founded by the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). Theodor Reik is the editor-in-chief (USA) | |
| The Instituto di Psicoanalisi de Roma founded by Nicola Perrotti (Italy) | |
| The Sigmund Freud Archives, a depository in the Library of Congress, founded in Washington, DC; Kurt Eissler becomes director (USA) | |
| Ego Psychology and the Psychoses by Paul Federn published (USA) | |
| 1953 | April 2 - Siegfried Bernfeld dies in San Francisco (USA) |
| April 15 - Pope Pius XII gives an address through which the Church recognizes the validity of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis (Rome) | |
| June 7 - Géza Róheim dies in New York (USA) | |
| June 16 - Juliette Favez-Boutonier, Françoise Dolto, and Daniel Lagache, followed by Jacques Lacan, resign from the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and announce the creation of the French Society of Psychoanalysis, Study and Freudian Research Group (France) | |
| July 26 - 18th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in London. President: Heinz Hartmann. A committee is formed by Kurt Eissler, Phyllis Greenacre, Hedwig Hoffer, Jeanne Lampl-de-Groo,t and Donald Winnicott to judge the application for admission requested by the French Society of Psychoanalysis (France). The Norwegian Society's application is rejected in part because of the didactic practice of Harald Schjelderup (Norway). The Danish Society of Psychoanalysis obtains the status of Work Group (Denmark). Werner Kemper's Centro de Estudos Psicanaliticos is recognized as Study Group under the sponsorship of the São Paulo Society (Brazil) | |
| September 26-27 - Following the 16th Conference of Romance Language Psychoanalysts, Jacques Lacan gives his "Rome Report": "Function and Range of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" (France) | |
| October 17 - The Canadian Society of Psychoanalysts/Société des psychanalystes canadiens is dissolved and replaced by the Société canadienne de psychanalyse/Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (Canada) | |
| The New Orleans Psychoanalytic Society founded (USA) | |
| Publication of the first volume of Life and Work of Sigmund Freud that Ernest Jones will publish in three volumes from 1953 to 1957, in London, at Hogarth Press |
| JAPA, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, official mouthpiece of the American Psychoanalytic Association, founded. John Frosch is the editor-in-chief for twenty years, assisted by Nathaniel Ross (USA) | |
| 1954 | June 1 - Official inauguration of the Institute of Psychoanalysis of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and creation of a Center for Consultation and Psychiatric Treatment (France) |
| First International Congress of Psychotherapy of the Group in Toronto (Canada) | |
| 1955 | May 6 - Henri Flournoy dies in Geneva (Switzerland) |
| July 26 - Nineteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Geneva (Switzerland). President: Heinz Hartmann. The French Society of Psychoanalysis is not recognized as a society belonging to the IPA (France). Affiliation of the Sociedade Psicanalitica do Rio de Janeiro (SPRJ), founded by Werner Kemper, Kattrin Kemper, Fabio Leite Lobo, Gerson Borsoi, Inaura Carneiro Leão Vetter, Luiz Guimarães Dahlheim, and Noemy Rudolfer (Brazil) | |
| September 27 - Under the influence of Willy Baranger, the Asociación Psicoanalítica del Uruguay is founded | |
| The Psychoanalytic Association of New York and the Michigan Psychoanalytic Association founded (USA) | |
| Cesare Musatti founds the Revista di psicoanalisi, official mouthpiece of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) (Italy) | |
| Heisaku Kosawa founds the Psychoanalytical Society of Japan | |
| The Washington Psychoanalytic Institute is accredited by the American Psychoanalytic Association (USA) | |
| The Association Internationale de Psychologie Analytique (International Association of Analytical Psychology) (AIPA) founded | |
| The Technique of Psycho-Analysis by Edward Glover published (Great Britain) | |
| 1956 | May 6 - For the hundredth anniversary of Freud's birth, Ernest Jones unveils a commemorative plaque on Freud's Maresfield Gardens house, Hampstead (Great Britain). In Paris, a plaque is placed at the Salpêtrière and on the façade of the little Latin Quarter hotel, rue Le Goff, where Freud lived in 1885-1886 (France) |
| May 6 - The Colombian Psychoanalytical Study Group founded, with Arnaldo Rascovsky (Colombia) | |
| August 6 - Oskar Pfister dies in Zurich (Switzerland) | |
| The Western New York Psychoanalytic Society founded (USA) | |
| First issue of La Psychanalyse, review of the French Society of Psychoanalysis (France) | |
| American Academy of Psychoanalysis founded by Franz Alexander, R. Orinker, and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Its first president is Janet Rioch Bard (USA) | |
| First Latin-American Congress of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires (Argentina) | |
| Toronto Psychoanalytic Study Circle founded by Alan Parkin (Canada) |
| Primary Love and Psycho-Analytic Technique by Michael Balint published (Great Britain) | |
| 1957 | February 27 - Ernst Kris dies in New York (USA) |
| April 28 - Frieda Fromm-Reichmann dies in Rockville, Maryland (USA) | |
| July 28-31 - 20th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Paris (France). President: Heinz Hartmann. Affiliation of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (CPS), the Dansk Psykoanalytisk Selskat (DPS), and the Asociación Psicoanalítica Mexicana (A.P.M.). Recognized as Study Group: the Luso-Iberian Psychoanalytical Society, patronized by the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis (SSP) and the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP), the Study Group of the Asociación Psicoanalítica del Uruguay and the Colombian Psychoanalytical Study Group. William H. Gillespie is elected president of the IPA | |
| November 3 - Wilhelm Reich dies in the Lewisburg penitentiary, Connecticut (USA) | |
| The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society and the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society founded (USA) | |
| First Latin-American congress of psychotherapy of the Buenos Aires group (Argentina) | |
| Sydney Institute of Psychoanalysis founded (Australia) | |
| A Research Committee founded by the British Psycho-Analytical Society (Great Britain) | |
| Envy and Gratitude by Melanie Klein published (Great Britain) | |
| 1958 | February 11 - Ernest Jones dies in London (Great Britain) |
| May 4 - Emil Oberholzer dies in New York (USA) | |
| September 20 - Felix Boehm dies in Berlin (Germany) | |
| October 12 - Carl Müller-Braunschweig dies in Berlin (Germany) | |
| December 20 - Clara M. Thompson dies in New York (USA) | |
| The "Groupe Lyonnais de Psychanalyse" founded around Charles-Henri Nodet within the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (France) | |
| The Association of Mental Health of the 13th arrondissement in Paris founded by Philippe Paumelle, Serge Lebovici, and René Diatkine (France) | |
| Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research founded (IPTAR) (USA) | |
| 1959 | January 11 - Edward Bibring dies in Boston (USA) |
| July 26-30 - 21st Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Copenhagen (Denmark). President: William H. Gillespie. Affiliation of the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanalise de Rio de Janeiro (SBPRJ) (Brazil) and the Sociedad Luso-española de Psicoanálisis (Spain-Portugal) | |
| The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society and the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society founded (USA) | |
| New York Freudian Society (NYFS) founded under the name of New York Society of Freudian Psychologists (its name is changed because of provisions in the law of confirmation |
| in the State of New York concerning psychology) (USA) | |
| 1960 | April 27 - Official inauguration of the Institut und Ausbildungszentrum für Psychoanalyse und Psychosomatische Medizin (Institute and Training Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychosomatic Medicine) in Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany) |
| May 5 - Maurice Bouvet dies in Paris (France) | |
| September - The French Society of Psychoanalysis (France) organizes its first international colloquium on female sexuality in Amsterdam (Netherlands) | |
| September 22 - Melanie Klein-Reizes dies in London (Great Britain) | |
| Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse founded (Germany) | |
| A coordination committee of the Latin-American Organizations of Psychoanalysis (C.O.P.A.L.) is founded at the 3rd Latin-American Congress of Psychoanalysis, in Santiago, Chile, by the Argentine Societies of Psychoanalysis, from Sáo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and from Chile and Mexico. President: Arnaldo Rascovsky (Chile) | |
| The Belgian Association of Psychoanalysts takes the name of Belgian Society for Psychoanalysis/Belgische Vereniging voor Pscychoanalyse (Belgium) | |
| Estudios sobre técnica psicoanalítica (Transference and Countertransference) by Heinrich Racker published (Argentina) | |
| 1961 | March 17 - The Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis is officially incorporated in the province of Québec (Canada) |
| June 6 - Carl Gustav Jung dies in Küssnacht (Switzerland) | |
| July 31-August 3 - 22nd Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Edinburgh (Great Britain). President: William H. Gillespie. Elected President: Maxwell Gitelson. Affiliation of the Sociedad Colombiana de Psicoanalisis (Colombia) and the Asociación Psicoanalítica del Uruguay. The Study Group from Porto Alegre, patronized by the SPRJ, is recognized (Brazil). The French Society of Psychoanalysis obtains the status of Study Group under the sponsorship of an ad hoc committee (France) | |
| August 21 - Marco Levi Bianchini dies in Nocera Inferiore (Italy) | |
| The Centro de investigación y tratamiento Enrique Racker (Enrique Racker Center of Research and Treatment) founded by the Associacion Psicoanalitica de Argentina (APA) (Argentina) | |
| The Revista de psicologia y psicoterapia de grupo founded (Argentina) | |
| 1962 | February 6 - Edmund Bergler dies in New York (USA) |
| March 6 - René Laforgue dies in Paris (France) | |
| May 10 - Joan Riviere-Hogson Verrail dies in London (Great Britain) | |
| July 30 - The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (I.F.P.S.) founded in Amsterdam by the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft, the Sociedad Psicoanalitica Mexicana, the Wiener Arbeitkreis für Tiefenpsychologie, |
| and the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society (Netherlands) | |
| September 21 - Marie Bonaparte dies in Saint-Tropez (France) | |
| The Rome Psychoanalytical Center founded by Emilio Servadio (Italy) | |
| Freud, the Secret Passion, the film by John Huston, released (USA) | |
| Learning from Experience by Wilfred R. Bion published (Great Britain) | |
| 1963 | July 28-August 1 - 23rd Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Stockholm (Sweden). President: Maxwell Gitelson. Elected President: William H. Gillespie and Phyllis Greenacre, pro tem. The Study Group from Porto Alegre is recognized as the Sociedade Psicanalitica de Porto Alegre (SPPA) (Brazil). Affiliation of the Colombian Society of Psychoanalysis (Colombia) |
| 1964 | March 8 - Franz Alexander dies in Palm Springs, California (USA) |
| May 25 - The French Study Group founded, organized into the Psychoanalytical Association of France (APF), presided over by Daniel Lagache and descended from the French Society of Psychoanalysis, marking the second schism of the French psychoanalytical movement (France) | |
| June 21 - Jacques Lacan founds theÉcole Française de Psychanalyse (French School of Psychoanalysis), which will be renamedÉcole freudienne de Paris (Freudian School of Paris) in September 1964 | |
| July 15 - Poul Bjerre dies in Göteborg, in Vårsta (Sweden) | |
| December 31 - Ronald Fairbairn dies in Edinburgh (Great Britain) | |
| The Institut und Ausbildungszentrum für Psychoanalyse und psychosomatische Medizin in Frankfurt-am-Main is named the Sigmund-Freud-Institut. The first director is A. Mitscherlich (Germany) | |
| Stig Björk and Veikko Tähkä create the IPA Study Group that will become the Finnish Psychoanalytic Society (Finland) | |
| First International Congress of Psychodrama in Paris, organized by Jacob Moreno (France) | |
| Papers on Psychoanalytic Psychology by Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, and Rudolf M. Loewenstein published (USA) | |
| 1965 | January 19 - French Society of Psychoanalysis (Société française de Psychanalyse) dissolved (France) |
| July 25-30 - 24th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Amsterdam (Netherlands). President: William H. Gillespie and Phyllis Greenacre, pro temp. Elected President: P.J. van der Leeuw. The Psychoanalytical Association of France becomes constituent Society of the IPA (France). For the first time a Latin American is elected vice-president of the IPA | |
| The Associaçao Brasileira de Medicina Psicosomática (ABMP) founded in São Paulo. First president: Danilo Perestrello (Brazil) |
| 1966 | February 3 - The éditions Gallimard with Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, the éditions Payot with Michel de M'Uzan and Marthe Robert, and the Presses universitaires de France with Jean Laplanche jointly undertake the publication of the complete works of Freud in French. The editorship will be granted to J. Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalis on April 12, 1967 (France) |
| February 7 - Ludwig Binswanger dies in Kreuzlingen, canton of Thurgovia (Switzerland) | |
| October 2-3 - The Fédération Européenne de psychanalyse (FEP, European Psychoanalytical Federation) founded in Paris, under the impetus of Raymond de Saussure (Switzerland). Honorary President: Anna Freud. Secretary: Evelyne Kestemberg (France) | |
| The Sociedad Luso-española de Psicoanálisis spawns the Sociedad Española de Psicoálisis (Spain) and the Portuguese Study Group (Portugal) | |
| Publication of Opere di Sigmund Freud in twelve volumes begins under the direction of Cesare Musatti (Italy) | |
| Écrits by Jacques Lacan published (France) | |
| 1967 | May 6 - The Associaçao Brasileira de Psicanálise (ABP) founded, joining four IPA societies into a federation. First president: Durval B. Marcondes, who has the Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise republished (Brazil) |
| July 3 - James Strachey dies in London (Great Britain) | |
| July 24-28 - 25th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Copenhagen (Denmark). President: P.J. Van der Leeuw. The Australian Society of Psychoanalysis, branch of the British Psychoanalytic Society, gains the status of an IPA Study Group (Australia). A Work Group created in Venezuela | |
| October 9 - Jacques Lacan proposes under the name "la passe" an enabling process adapted to the Freudian School of Paris (France) | |
| Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse (The Language of Psychoanalysis) by Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis published (France) | |
| The Canadian Psychoanalytic Society is organized into three branches: the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (English Québec), called CPS (QE), the Société Canadienne de Psychanalyse (French branch), and the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (Ontario) | |
| The Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis becomes the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (LAPSI) (USA) | |
| Société Médicale Balint founded (France) | |
| The Association des Psychanalystes du Québec (Quebec Association of Psychoanalysts) (A.D.P.Q.) founded with reference to Jacques Lacan | |
| The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self by Bruno Bettelheim published (USA) |
