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The chairwoman, in her opening remarks, drew attention to the appropriateness of holding a panel devoted to this subject on May 9, which is Founder's Day in American psychoanalytic history. Dr. Tartakoff also expressed her gratification at having as panelists the two foremost historiographers of psychoanalysis in the United States. John C. Burnham, Ph.D., is Professor of History and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Ohio State University and the author of the Psychological Issues monography, Psychoanalysis and American Medicine, 1894-1918: Medicine, Science, and Culture. Nathan G. Hale, Jr., Ph.D., is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Freud and the Americans: The Origin and Foundation of the Psychoanalytic Movement in America, 1876-1918. The other two panelists, Drs. Gifford and D'Amore are members of the Association who have long shown a special interest in and knowledge of the issues and personalities in the history of psychoanalysis in America. The focus of the panel, Dr. Tartakoff explained, was to explore the setting of the founding of the Association and the impact of some of the key personalities who participated in it.
Professor Nathan G. Hale then presented his paper, "Science or Fanaticism: Freud's American Colony, 1911," in which he brought a historian's perspective to the founding of the American Psychoanalytic Association, an event viewed as either the product of