ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows a man as large and important to the world needed many names. He was the Elvis of the psychoanalytic world in America. He was the first graduate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, although it is true there was no formal training program at the time; the man who turned down Sigmund Freud’s offer to enter a private practice in Vienna, and the man Freud told to go to America and spread the doctrine of psychoanalysis. Dr. David Terman, former director of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, said during a phone conversation to the author that few in Chicago knew of her grandfather’s family and he rarely spoke about personal issues. Dr. Terman suggested that to know more about her grandfather’s background would help to better understand his work in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychosomatic medicine.
