Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. XII, 1964: Freud's Letters to Ernst Simmel. Translated by Frances Deri and David Brunswick, Ph.D. Introduction by David Brunswick and Ruth Lachenbruch. Pp. 93-109.

A heart-warming correspondence between Freud and Simmel took place from 1918 through 1939. In this paper, all the letters but one are from Freud. They deal with Simmel's struggles as a budding psychoanalyst in Berlin; and his achievements in setting up the structure for supervisory analysis in the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society.

Throughout these years, Freud strongly admired Simmel's creative ideas about the psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses, neurotic symptoms associated with various organic syndromes, and his attempt to revise and clarify the theoretic analytic concepts then in vogue.

The paper is a tribute to the creative genius and strength of both men, unwavering in their pursuit of psychoanalytic science, despite the ravages of World War I, the exposure to Nazi barbarism, and severe personal illness. Simmel's drive and unswerving loyalty to the cause of psychoanalysis was once more illustrated when, after fleeing from Germany, he undertook the establishment of training institutes and psychoanalytic societies in Topeka and Los Angeles.