ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the American situation and what this meant for the German refugee. The immigration of psychoanalysts to the United States began during one of the worst periods in the short history of American psychoanalysis. This, in turn, affected both its administrative and its educational operations and had a strong bearing on the internal politics of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and the newer local groups in Washington, Chicago. One must also remember the enormous difficulties American psychoanalysis faced in being acknowledged by the American Psychiatric Association. Ernest Jones and his colleagues were concerned that the refugees might organize themselves into sub-groups, convinced as they were of possessing credentials far superior to those of their indigenous counterparts. Judging from the documents in the Archives of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, the final collapse of the Berlin Institute would seem to mark a period of relative calm—considering the circumstances—in matters concerning emigration.
