1930-1931

Franz Alexander spends year at Univ. Chicago as visiting professor of psychoanalysis. “Hutchins and McLean supported this experiment, but Bailey, Herrick, and Lashley were ‘sharply opposed to recognition of psycho-analysis,’ and the vogue of Alexander’s seminars and lectures among nonmedically trained people did nothing to reassure them. They effectively sabotaged Alexander’s visit, and when he returned to Chicago a year later it was to pursue psychosomatic medicine at his own, independently funded, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis (Blustein III, 102).