Death of a “Jewish Science” provides a powerful warning of what can happen when self-interest as rationalized opportunism becomes the modus operandi. James and Eileen Goggin dedicate the book to the “values of love, truth, work and democracy.” This spirit permeates their approach. Their presentation of the history of psychoanalysis before Hitler's rise to power and during the Third Reich is meant to clarify the ways in which it was extinguished. They demonstrate that the ideas and worldview of the psychoanalytic movement did not survive in Nazi Germany.

In 1920 Karl Abraham and Max Eitingon established in Berlin the first psychoanalytic institute (BPI), which soon became the leading training center in Europe. It had the first public psychoanalytic polyclinic and teaching facility anywhere. It was established “to provide some form