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The stimulating influence of psychoanalysis on psychiatry has been frequently recognized. Bartemeier investigates the relation between these two sciences from the less usual point of view: What did psychiatry do for psychoanalysis?
The Swiss school of psychiatry under the leadership of Bleuler made certain findings which were important for the development of psychoanalysis, such as the association experiment, the application of psychoanalytic theory to psychoses and the theory of complexes. American psychiatry showed an early interest in and understanding of psychoanalysis. Among the important American contributions,