ABSTRACT
Mabel described Brill's assessment of her relationship with Maurice Sterne: "Dr. Brill did not seem to try to remove Mabel from Maurice; the most he did was to insist that his feeling for him was aesthetic and not sexual, and that in that sense it was not real and direct. However, he did not press this point, for he trusted to the analytic method itself to bring a final clarification and readjustment in his ideas and feelings". Sterne remembered that Mabel was watching him pack for his upcoming trip to Wyoming and offered: "Let us finish this impossible impasse and get married." In his letter, Brill forcefully declared Mabel "crazy" and derided as "ridiculous" her current adoption of an Indian way of life. Since Brill's last surviving letter to Mabel in 1919, he had been to Europe and visited Freud, as indicated by a postcard from both men, sent to his wife, Rose, on September 2, 1921.
