Jenny Waelder-Hall and Early Child Analysis

Abstract

The four essays by Sanford Gifford collected in this journal issue trace the passage of psychoanalysis from Europe to the U.S. They focus specifically on the work of emigre analysts in Boston and their significance in the institutional history of BPSI. The essays explore the careers of Jenny Waelder-Hall and Walter Langer, and the interaction between Felix Deutsch and Sigmund Freud during the years that Freud was diagnosed with cancer and first responded to the diagnosis.