Main description:

* Contains contributions from a range of distinguished experts* First book to give a broad assessment of the importance of emigre analysts in American psychoanalysis* Offers both a historical and contemporary assessment of emigre analysts

Contents:

Introduction Part One 1. Emigre Analysts and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis in America 2. Emigre Psychoanalysis in the Age of McCarthyism 3. The Saga of the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Double Exile 4. Help, Health, Husbands and Hutzpah: The Lives of Five Women Analysts Part Two 5. The Holocaust and Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America 6. Liberalism, Populism, and Mass Psychology 7. Religion, Antisemitism, the Emigre Analysts, and Parallels to Our Time Part Three 8. The Exile Within 9. Working with the Frontiers: the IPA as a Protective Link 10. Reframing Early Interventions for Refugee Populations: The Importance of Emergency Medicine in Early Detection and Delivery of Mental Healthcare