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Grünewald
4 May 1925
Dear Professor,
Your birthday is just around the corner and, as it is not possible for me to bring you my good wishes in person this year either, it has once again to be done by letter (and with the waiver of a written answer!). Even though your state of health often leaves much to be desired, I firmly believe you have made good progress since your last birthday. May this progress be accelerated in the new year!
So that you hear also on your birthday that Ψα matters have not come to a standstill in Berlin (about which Eitingon will also inform you), I wish to tell you that, apart from three lectures on “Crime” in Berlin,1 I have to give three further lectures in Holland this month: one in The Hague to the Medical Association on the “Hysterical Symptom”, and two in Leyden to psychiatrists on the “Ψα Treatment of Schizophrenic States”.
In the Berlin Medical Society Moll launched a very nasty, spiteful attack on Ψα. We did not react at all and are pleased with that. Kraus, who was chairman, very loyally clamped down on M's behaviour, and the audience in general was painfully affected by M's tactless action. Indirectly he helped us instead of harming us. The behaviour of the chairman and of the assembly is also a sign of the times.
Our news is that my daughter has started her last year at grammar school. In the summer she will spend the holidays with a friend in western Switzerland. Gerd is already as tall as his sister and his mother. Both his intellectual and his physical development please us greatly. In the summer I am thinking of taking him on a high-mountain tour through the Berner Oberland and Wallis. My wife wants to accompany me to Paris for a short time after the Congress, and then to spend a few weeks in Italy.
If all goes according to plan, I hope to see you, dear Professor, and yours in exactly four weeks' time in Homburg. Please accept the most cordial greetings to all of you from all of us!
With many good wishes,
Yours,