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ARGUABLY, the psychoanalytic world in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s was the most fertile, imaginative, collegial, and creative psychoanalytic community our profession has ever known. Although psychoanalysis was born in Vienna, nourished through its early years almost single-handedly by Freud and the small group of loyalist collaborators who met with him there, it was in Germany that our field blossomed as it never had in Austria.
Known for his consummate organizational skill, Karl Abraham was a member of Freud's once-secret “Committee” and (until his death in 1925) headed Berlin's psychoanalytic institute, widely regarded as the ideal model of institutional organization and functioning. Its training model—tripartite functions of course work, personal analysis, and supervised “control analysis”—embodied what remains today the prevailing model world-wide (Kernberg, 2000) of institutional training in psychoanalysis.
History continues to exhume and record the extraordinary events associated with the rise of National Socialism in Germany. In this context, pointed questions have been raised about the fate of psychoanalysis in the years concurrent with Hitler's rise to power and his drive toward world domination. The data of this record began to amass in the latter decades of the twentieth century, as the world emerged from the numbing effects of wartime events on collective memory and on soul and psyche. James E. Goggin and Eileen Brockman Goggin, two clinical psychologists who practice in Lubbock, Texas, have contributed a remarkable volume to the historical record.
The Goggins availed themselves of free access to substantial archival