George Wilbur, an established early member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, becomes publisher and editor of the journal.
1946
1947
Hanns Sachs, former editor, dies as a result of chronic lung issues.
1949
In the Fall issue of Volume 6, Siegfried Bernfeld, known for his research in providing a link between psychoanalysis and educational theory, publishes a seminal work on Freud’s scientific and medical training called “Freud’s Scientific Beginnings.”
1950
Harry Slochower, a faculty member of Brooklyn College highly regarded in the field of German and comparative literature (and a future editor of American Imago), contributes the article “Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Myth of Modern Sensibility.”
Lionel Trilling, leading American literary critic, author, and teacher, publishes The Liberal Imagination, his first collection of essays, including “Freud and Literature” and “Art and Neurosis.” In 1955, he publishes Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture; in 1959, he has a synopsis of his talk of the same title published in American Imago.
1951
One of the foremost 20th-century authorities on the life and works of Henry James, Leon Edel contributes “Hugh Walpole and Henry James: The Fantasy of the ‘Killer and the Slain’” to volume 8, issue 4.
1956
At the height of the McCarthy era in the 1950s, the Supreme Court reversed the Board of Education’s dismissal on political grounds of Harry Slochower from the faculty of Brooklyn College.
John C. Burnham’s “The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States,” appears in the March issue of the thirteenth volume of the journal.