D r.  A.  A. B r i l l Telephone 8101 Riverside Office hours
100 West 78th Street 9 to 12, 5 to 7
       New York

Oct 23. 08

My dear Professor.

I was very pleased to get your letter and am 
glad to hear that everything is again as of yore. 
The same day that your letter reached me I got 
a telephone from Parker. I had an interview 
with him, he wanted to know whether I will translate 
your book and whether I am willing to translate 
the article which you are to write for him. To 
both of which I readily assented. Now a few words 
regarding this movement. Parker is no physician 
nor is he a psychologist, he is an instructor 
of English in Columbia and an editor of a periodic-
al. There is at present a wave of psychotherapy in our 
country, presumably brought from the continent, and 
he conceived the idea of forming this „Course of 
reading.“ „Combining sound psychology, sound 
medicine and sound religion.“ The movement 
as you see from the quotation is a semi religious 
one. When you wrote to me the first time I thought 
that Parker was a certain Dr. Parker whom I know 
and he I was sure had nothing to do with Columbia.  
Well, to tell you the truth I was very surprised to 
see the men that are taking part in this move-
ment and I am not the only one who shares that

feeling here.  But I have heard that some of our foremost 
neurologists and psychologists are in it.  I spoke 
to one of the men and he expressed himself as follows 
„Rather then have quacks get into it we rather do it.“ This 
I believe is the trend of opinion. Peterson is also in it and 
I understand that Jung has been asked to write 
on the subconscious.  This at the suggestion of Peterson. 
He also asked me to write something for him and knowing 
that I am your disciple he suggested, that it should 
not contain anything sexual.  On further conversation I 
elicited that he has been warned against your sexual 
ideas and this by Morton Prince.  He (Prince) certainly entertains 
a number of antipathies against things sexual. I promised 
to show him a chapter from the book so that he can 
see whether it is appropriate for publication into his 
library but I can’t see how he can be reconciled to the 
sexual ideas in it. I heard from Jones and expect 
to see him soon. I am constantly working on 
your translation and will soon have some 
finished. There is such a great misconception about your 
ideas among some that your works will certainly 
be of great benefit.  My analysis will appear within a 
few days and I will send you a reprint. I have a 
number of nice cases. I am analysing 3 hysterias 
– men – and one Zwangsneurose. There is absolutely no 
doubt in my mind about the theories of Infantil Sexualität. 
In every one of the three hysterias passive sexual traumas at 
periods ranging from 4‑7 were found and in the Zwangsneurose 
there is a trauma characterized by activity and distinct relishing of 
libido at age of 5.  Furthermore I examined a woman suffering from 
a typical Zwangsneurose & in her the sexual trauma was very typical. 

Both my wife and I send our kindest regards to yourself and family
cordially Brill