ABSTRACT

In the United States, interested and well-to-do Americans had, like interested and well-to-do British people, been going to visit Sigmund Freud in Vienna, from the beginning of the century. Erich Fromm came to the United States in the 1930s, an alumnus of the Berlin Institute, where he had had high status. Paul Roazen comments that the experience of the Israeli kibbutzim would later prove him right in this; he also comments that most Freudians felt that he had betrayed the purity of the psychoanalytic mission by such ideas. The Americans who took an interest in Anna Freud were mainly from the medical profession, and from the beginning medical bias was characteristic of the American psychoanalytic scene. American-born, Harry Stack Sullivan seems to have been at Chestnut Lodge before the others, in the 1920s and the 1930s. Heinz Kohut became President of the American Psychoanalytic Association after Heinz Hartmann, and nothing can surely be more establishment.