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April 19, 1965. REFLECTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN NEW YORK FROM 1925 TO THE PRESENT. Sandor Lorand, M.D.
In this presentation Dr. Lorand recalls the highlights of the development of psychoanalysis from 1925, when he first came to New York. At that time there was a nucleus of seven analysts in New York, all of whom had been trained in Vienna. In the United States Dr. Lorand found the attitude of American physicians toward psychoanalysis to be different than that in Hungary, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. In Europe, Freud had hoped for friendly scepticism, but did not receive it; in America, Lorand feels that psychoanalysis got the reception Freud would have wanted. The groundwork for this friendlier acceptance was laid by Freud's lectures at Clark University and by the pioneer work of Brill and Jelliffe.
In 1926, Dr. Isidor Strauss, Chief of Neurology and Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, asked the author to accept an appointment at the hospital. There he joined other analysts—Kardiner, Stern, Monroe Meyer, Asch, Rothschild, and Schoenfeld—in the teaching of psychoanalytic psychiatry. All of these psychoanalysts fought heroically to introduce analytic ideas to the hospital staff. The first psychoanalytic clinic connected with a hospital in New York was at the Presbyterian Hospital, under the direction of Dr. Kirby. The clinic failed after a year as the only patients referred by the other medical services were psychotics.
Drs. Broadwin, Slotsky, and Orgel came to Dr. Lorand for supervision of their analytic cases, the first such training conducted in the United States. It marked a significant advance when these three men were invited by the Chief of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital to join in the medical rounds. Dr. Oberndorf in particular deserves major credit for the pioneer work at Mount Sinai Hospital.
In 1930, van Ophuijsen, Alexander, and Spitz came from Europe. In those years, problems of teaching and training were undecided; in the N