ABSTRACT
The New York Psychoanalytic Society organized a meeting to commemorate Abraham Arden Brill on March 30, 1948. A number of prominent psychoanalysts paid tribute to him, recalling his crucial role in introducing psychoanalysis to the United States while defending its theories and practice throughout his career. In his memorial address, Oberndorf described Brill more frankly, with a directness that would likely have pleased him. After Brill's death, Mabel Dodge Luhan relied even more on her Santa Fe doctor, Eric Hausner, for emotional sustenance. Mabel spent the last decade of her life in Taos, slowed by physical ailments—high blood pressure, a number of strokes, and cataracts that greatly impaired her vision—but her spirit never dimmed. When she wrote Doctors in 1954, she honored him in the final chapter, "Valedictory," emphasizing his "peculiar healing power that is difficult to analyze".
