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Budapest, July 22, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
It is terribly hot in Budapest now. I have to bathe twice a day in cold water in order to stay halfway capable of working.
At Adler's request I put together a paper about the Hungarian psychiatric literature of the last few years.1 I soon noticed (despite the greatest restraint) that I will not be able to avoid making those colleagues who have heretofore only been opponents into enemies through my critiques. They just write too much stupid stuff!—The Zentralblatt will serve us well; it will hold up well as a defensive, and especially as an offensive, weapon, in addition, of course, to having the advantage of being able to publish works of smaller caliber more quickly.
The medical periodicals are now going absolutely wild in opposition to you and the whole movement. Hoche's article had a liberating effect on the spirits who, out of prudence, have not dared to rebel against us up to now. My friend Dr. Schächter, for instance, whom Ψα. has heretofore “given something to think about”—all of a sudden sees clear as day that we are the victims of a colossal self-deception.
On the other hand, I get much joy from a young scholar, a physicist and a first-rate thinker whom I acquainted with your works and who subsequently, with the aid of autoanalysis, recovered from a severe neurosis