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In 1960 the President of the West German Psychological Society criticized a group of Jungian psychotherapists who had recently won state and municipal funding for an institute in Stuttgart. He charged that the Swiss Jung and his German followers had collaborated with the Nazis to a far greater degree than had psychologists. In making such an accusation, this psychologist was indulging in a professionally self-serving fantasy, to wit, that the history of his discipline's development could be separated from the history of Germany under Hitler. It is true that relatively few psychologists (and psychotherapists) in Nazi Germany fully and publicly embraced Nazi ideology. But it is also the case, as Ulfried Geuter's recent book tells us, that the “normal” processes of the