Antonovsky recounts how Jewish members were purged from the German Psychoanalytic Society, and "Aryan" analysts, particularly Carl Müller-Braunschweig and Harald Schultz-Hencke, collaborated with the Nazis and tried to make psychoanalytic thinking appear compatible with Nazi doctrine. She posits that they did so by distortion, and that the Nazi system of exterminating what, by a process of externalization, is deemed to be bad, militates against the need to deal with conflict and to symbolize, and is antithetical to psychoanalysis. She describes the later effort of Müller-Braunschweig to become reunited with the International Psychoanalytical Association, and how it was facilitated by a reluctance to deal with the reality of collaboration and its impact on the German psychoanalytic identity.