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It is with profound sorrow, fresh from the shock of his sudden death, that I try to express my feelings about the man who was a fatherly friend to me and to many others; the founder of our Society, 1 its president for many years, and honorary president until his death.
It was a long and difficult road which he travelled. Way back in 1908 he accompanied Freud to Clark University for the lectures which Freud described as the official inauguration of psycho-analysis in America. On that occasion Freud was honoured and acclaimed and one would have thought that Dr. Brill, who accepted the torch from the hand of Freud, would have been able to continue unobstructed.
We all know about those early years when Brill's courage and unfaltering faith in analysis gave him the tenacity and energy to continue on the straight path he had cut out for himself. He never wavered, never compromised. It is because of the richly productive work of A. A. Brill that analysis holds the place it does in America to-day. Through his continual teaching and lecturing, and through his extraordinary