ABSTRACT
Mabel returned to New York in January 1938 and likely stayed some of the time with Brill, accompanied perhaps by Tony, who had also been invited, until she found a more permanent residence. Mabel's return to psychoanalysis was noted both privately and publicly. In the spring of 1938, Mabel wrote to Una Jeffers that she was now "excavated" and "extroverted" by Brill, thus freed up to work and newly available for interactions with people. In Mabel's letter to Brill, she describes a meeting between her friend Myron Brinig and Theodore Dreiser. She also mentions the writer Carman Barnes. Brill's reply refers to Mabel's essay, Psycho-Analysis with Dr. Brill, an account of her treatment likely written and perhaps completed during this visit to New York. During this analysis with Brill in the spring of 1938, Mabel reports in her essay that "slowly the inhibited feeling for life began to rise again.
