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4 August 1929
Berchtesgaden
Dear Jones,
I am extremely happy that the Congress proceeded in such a conciliatory fashion and that the New Yorkers reached a clear rapprochement with our standpoint. You remember my apprehensions and my determination in case of a different outcome. The credit for allaying this danger is certainly due to you and Brill.1 I have already thanked him and now thank you too. You also surely admit now that we shall not lose America if we insist on the recognition of lay analysis. It was a case where conquering the external world seemed more justified than adapting to it.
Anna also-reported to me how much effort the English group put into the Congress, and how amiably the guests were received.
With cordial wishes for your and your dear wife's remaining summer.
Yours,
Freud
At the Eleventh Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Oxford, 28 July 1929, Brill had agreed to modify the New York society's previous unyielding position on lay analysis. Freud, earlier in the year, had put forward the recommendation to the Secret Committee that a separation between the American and European societies be enacted if no arrangement could be made to allow non-medically trained psychoanalysts to practice in America. See Jones (1957a, pp. 298-299; 1957b, pp. 320-321).