ABSTRACT
The IPA was founded in March 1910, at the Second Congress of Psychoanalysis, known as the Nuremberg Congress. The initiative for this had come from Ferenczi. On 27 December 1909 he had written to Freud about such an organisation: “It would be appropriate to determine the program in advance ... Besides the psychological and pathological problems, someone would have to treat the practical experiences to date and the most expedient methods of propaganda for our psychological movement” (Fer/Fr, 27 Dec 1909, p. 117, italics in the original). Freud’s acceptance arrived on 1 January 1910.
