Brief von Ernest Jones, 11. November 1921, London1

Dear Friends:

All three letters have arrived, though very slowly (7-9 days). Speaking for myself I think that the personal connections among us all are so strong that other than strictly psa news would be welcome at times, especially personal news and something about the effects of outer circumstances, financial, etc.

Stoddart read an interesting paper of the production of chronic splanchnoptosis by chronic fear, which releases quantities of adrenalin into the circulation (Cannon); this causes spasm of the sphincters, e.g. pylorus and other intestinal ones, with stasis of peristalsis, resulting in chronic dilatation of the organs with sagging downwards, to which nephroptosis is also secondary.2

Dr Mourgue3 of Paris, editor of L'Encephale, finds the hostility against Psa so great that he was written to ask my opinion of his chances in French Canada. He seems to be a serious adherent. I have advised him against emigrating to Canada.

I enclose a cutting on Mrs McCormick's activity in Chicago.4 Last week I interviewed Dr Brown,5 the chief of the Newcastle group, and as it turns out the only serious member. The group is not in Newcastle but in a war hospital 15 miles away which will soon be disbanded. Brown himself is a valuable person who is going to join us in London. He will be analysed either here or in Berlin.

Berlin. The Lungwitz case seems to be an exact parallel, in nature, defence and also in outcome, to the author of the Autobiography of a Child