ABSTRACT
Nathan G. Hale, Jr., has brought an extraordinary degree of nonpartisan scholarship to bear on the contentious history of psychoanalysis in America. His 1971 Freud and the Americans, 1 now at last reprinted, carried the story until 1917, and has become a standard source for historians and other students of the reception of psychoanalytic doctrines in the United States. One way of judging a book is in terms of how often it has been necessary to use it over the years as a point of reference; on numerous occasions I have turned, each time with benefit, to look something up, especially about pre-Freudian psychiatry, in Hale’s Freud and the Americans.
