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In the years before 1990, Freud was known to have complained of his intellectual loneliness, what he later called “splendid isolation”. There is hardly anyone to discuss his new works. Like many events in Freud's life, emergence from isolation has been gradual. As his articles were published in psychiatric journals, an increasing number of readers began to develop over the years. In particular, the interest in the method has increased steadily, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries. The meetings held in Freud's waiting room in every Wednesday evening were called the Psychological Wednesday Society. In 1908, the Psychological Wednesday Society, in which the participation to the meetings gradually increased over the years, became the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society. An internationally-attended Congress for Freudian Psychology, organized by Jung in 1908 in Salzburg, is the first major international meeting in the field of psychoanalysis. Two years later, the International Psychoanalytical Association was founded during the Second International Psychoanalytical Congress in Nuremberg in 1910. Then, the international psychoanalytic movement developed in a short period of time, and in the following years psychoanalysis was rapidly expanding in many countries.