Excerpts from an autobiography. Memories of travel in the United States in 1950

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Alberto Merini, Paolo Migone, Johannes Cremerius
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/2
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 257-280 File size 378 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2026-002004
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After an Introductory note by Giorgio Meneguz, some excerpts (pp. 104-131) from the posthumously published autobiographical book by the German psychoanalyst Johannes Cremerius (1918-2002), edited by Wolfram Mauser with the collaboration of Astrid Lange-Kirchheim, Joachim Pfeffer, Carl Pietzcher & Petra Strasser, Ein Leben als Psychoanalytiker in Deutschland [“A Life as a Psychoanalyst in Germany”] (Würzburg, D: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006), are published. Cremerius recounts a trip to the United States in 1950, where he had gone for his training. Among other things, he describes his visits to some of the most eminent psychoanalysts of the time: in New York he visited Kurt R. Eissler, Sándor Radó, Theodor Reik, and Karen Horney, and also describes a supervision with Rudolph M. Loewenstein; in Chicago he visited Franz Alexander, in Boston Helene Deutsch, at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka (Kansas) Karl Menninger, and at the Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville (Maryland) Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Back in New York, he recounts his experiences at Cornell University and Mount Sinai Hospital, and a visit to Jacob Moreno.

Keywords: History of psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis in the United States; Autobiography; Germany; Nazism

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Alberto Merini, Paolo Migone, Johannes Cremerius, Brani di una autobiografia. Ricordi di un viaggio negli Stati Uniti nel 1950 in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 2/2026, pp 257-280, DOI: 10.3280/PU2026-002004