ABSTRACT
Psycho-analysis suffered its heaviest blow when the Nazis took power, in Germany and later in Austria. Most of the German analysts had to emigrate, either because it was the only way to continue their work or because they were Jews. Psycho-analysis struck firm and healthy roots in this country when the British Psycho-Analytical Society, founded in 1919, replaced the earlier London Society. Ernest Jones was active in advancing the status as well as the development of psycho-analysis. In the International Psycho-Analytic Association, he was accorded the same outstanding position and gave the same untiring service as in Britain. Only a chess-playing psycho-analyst could have written his essay on the strange American genius, Paul Morphy. After the war, the psycho-analytic societies in Britain and elsewhere resumed full activity, but Jones declined to carry his former responsibilities any longer.
