ABSTRACT
THIS SWIFT, IF LIMITED, SUCCESS [OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AMERICA, BETWEEN 1908 AND 1911] RESULTED FROM THE COMMITMENT OF A FEW PHYSICIANS, SOME OF THEM INFLUENTIXL, WHO DEVOTED UNUSUXL ZEXL AND ENERGY TO THE SPREAD OF THEIR NEW BELIEFS. SUCH A DECREE OF CONVICTION WAS NOT AN ABSTRACT PROCESS OF COOLLY APPRAISING A NEW SCIENTIFIC THEORY. RATHER, IT INVOLVED A DEEPLY FELT CONVERSION ... THOSE WHO CAME TO CONSIDER THEMSELVES ‘PSYCHOANALYSTS’ EXPERIENCED THE HEAT OF A NEW FXITH . . .
