title: Why did Freud do it? A puzzling episode in the history of psychoanalysis.
abstract: This article is about the Freud-Frink-Brill relationship, certain events in the history of psychoanalysis in the United States in the years 1919 to 1925, and some speculative explanations for these events. It is not a critique of psychoanalytic theory or practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. azitrin@aol.com
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zitrin
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000266:history / Q000628:therapy; D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011287:Prejudice / Q000266:history; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States