title: From avant-garde to specialism: psychoanalysis in America.
abstract: Psychoanalysis in America functioned first largely as an avant-garde phenomenon. Later psychoanalysis became a specialty within a bureaucratic society. Both roles help explain the importance and the limitations of freud's impact on American culture.
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States