The author undertakes an initial attempt to uncover traces of psychoanalysis in Poland prior to its temporary demise at the hands of historical catastrophes. Its beginnings are associated with the names of Hermann Nunberg, Ludwig Jekels, and Helene Deutsch, who established psychoanalysis in Poland before the First World War. In the interwar years, there was little or no further development, and the Second World War and the annihilation of the Jews became the death knell for Polish psychoanalysis. Not until the post1989 period were there any indications of a renewal, but today it appears that psychoanalysis in Poland may indeed be in the process of rising from the ashes, like the legendary phoenix.