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Baden-Baden, August 19, 1927
Dear Professor,
I know that Dr. Laforgue (who called on me here and spent a few pleasant days by auto with us in what is now French Alsace) is coming to the
Semmering after the Congress.* Possibly you, despite the planned flight from being overrun, will also have to receive others. Well, so that you don't have too many around your neck, I will leave it to you to decide whether you prefer to have my visit with you (which I have been looking forward to for so long) in the first or the last half of the month of September. Please, telegraph me your wish, since I am not completely independent; I must also dispense with the time of my five pupils (five hours).
Besides the visit of Laforgue (who makes a very favorable impression on me), I am expecting for next Sunday the announced visit of the “Southwest Germans” (Landauer, Happel, perhaps Meng, Herr and Frau Dr. Fromm-Reichmann).1 Together with me and Groddeck, it will be quite a respectable number. Frau Dr. Fromm-Reichmann is coming over to me once a week from Heidelberg. She is an astute, analytically extremely talented person.
In the question of the presidency, I will follow your advice, however it may sound. I request a word about it.
Kind regards,
Ferenczi
My wife, as always, thanks you for the greetings and returns them cordially.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889-1957), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of German-Jewish descent. She was an analysand of Wilhelm Wittenberg, Hanns Sachs, and, evidently, also Ferenczi. She later worked closely with Groddeck and acted as a scientific hostess in his sanatorium. In 1933 she emigrated to America, where she headed the famous Chestnut Lodge clinic and played a pioneering role in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses. She dedicated her chief work, Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy (Chicago, 1950), to her teachers Sigmund Freud, Kurt Goldstein, Georg Groddeck, and Harry Stack Sullivan. Erich Fromm (1900-1980), probably one o