German-speaking Central Europe: Part 1: The development of psychosis psychotherapy in Switzerland

National Socialism led to the ¯ight and emigration from Germany to the USA of some well-known psychoanalysts who had worked with psychotic patients, above all Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, who had run a sanatorium in Heidelberg in the 1920s. Her work at Chestnut Lodge Sanatorium became well known in Switzerland and the German-speaking world during the 1950s (see Hoffmann and Elrod, 1999).