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Max Schur first became acquainted with Freud in 1915 as a medical student at the original introductory lectures. He became a successful general practitioner and contributed some fifty papers on general medical problems. In 1928, Schur attended Freud as his personal physician and remained in that capacity until Freud's death. In 1932 Schur completed a personal analysis and was accepted as a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. He later came to New York and began teaching at the Division of Psychoanalytic Education of the Downstate Medical Center where he served as both supervising and training analyst. The current volume of essays is a tribute to Schur on his seventieth birthday by his friends and colleagues of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. Before its completion, Schur died and the selection of essays was amended to include a partial selection from Schur's own works, in addition to commentary on his contribution to psychoanalytic theory.
Schur's psychoanalytic development adhered to, and yet expanded, the essential Freudian metaphors. Within that framework, he investigated a variety of subjects, including aspects of anxiety, ethology, affect theory, the Id, and the relationship between mind and body. In his concern for the interplay between mind and body, Schur emphasizes the existence of a continuum of responses to environmental pressures. With growth, Schur believes, the Anlage (equivalent