ABSTRACT
Both World War I and II were instrumental in popularizing the therapeutic benefit of psychoanalysis and bestowing international recognition upon Freud’s name and movement. In this chapter and the next, we continue our brief historical sketch of the events leading up to the golden age of psychoanalysis in the 1950s in America by reviewing the role of psychoanalysis in wartime. We offer this summary in order to provide the reader with the relevant background for an understanding of the forces that shaped how psychoanalysis in its golden era came to be institutionalized and defined.
