—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Transcriber’s Note: The name Freund at page 8, which is likely to be a reference to Freud, has been corrected accordingly. The erroneous Roman number vli in footnote 15 is corrected to be vii just as a guess. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST JONES NO. 2 PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND THE WAR NEUROSES by Drs. S. FERENCZI (Budapest), KARL ABRAHAM (Berlin), ERNST SIMMEL (Berlin) and ERNEST JONES (London) Introduction by Prof. SIGM. FREUD (Vienna) [Illustration] THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL PRESS LONDON VIENNA NEW YORK 1921 Copyright, 1921 C. Fromme, Printer, Vienna CONTENTS PAGE I. Introduction by Prof. Sigm. Freud 1 II. Symposium held at the Fifth International Psycho-Analytical Congress at Budapest, September 1918: 1. Dr. S. Ferenczi 5 2. Dr. Karl Abraham 22 3. Dr. Ernst Simmel 30 III. War Shock and Freud’s Theory of the Neuroses, by Dr. Ernest Jones 44 I. INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR SIGM. FREUD, Vienna. This little book on the War Neuroses, with which the Verlag opens the “Internationale psychoanalytische Bibliothek”, deals with a subject which until lately engaged the greatest current interest. When the subject came up for discussion at the Fifth Psycho-Analytical Congress at Budapest (September, 1918), official representatives of the Central European Powers were present to obtain information from the lectures and discussions. The hopeful result of this first meeting was the promise that psycho-analytical institutions should be established, where medical men qualified in analysis might find the means and time to study the nature of these puzzling illnesses and the therapeutic value of psycho-analysis in them. However, before these results could be achieved the war came to an end, the government organisations broke down, and interest in war neuroses gave place to other concerns. At the same time, significantly enough, most of the neurotic diseases which had been brought about by the war disappeared on the cessation of the war conditions. The opportunity, therefore, for a thorough investigation of these affections was unfortunately missed. However, one must add, it is to be hoped that it will be a very long time before such an opportunity again occurs. This episode, now a thing of the past, has not been without importance for the spread of the knowledge of psycho-analysis. Many medical men, who had previously held themselves aloof from psycho-analysis, have been brought into close touch with its theories through their service with the army compelling