18th January 1926  
Dear Friends,  

We are now faced with the task of continuing our lives without Karl  
and we all know what that means.  

My being late with this Rundbrief enables me to answer the important  
letter from Max which came this morning. Sándor and I will be as surprised 
at its contents as we were at the unexpected ease with which Max had provided  
a solution in Berlin. However, he knows himself best and if Professor also  
agrees after a thorough discussion there is no more to be said except to  
express our disappointment. We had hoped that he would be able to keep the  
breach open at least for two or three years until some better solution could  
be provided than is at the moment possible. The three Berlin names he suggests  
seem the best now available, but it is plain that Simmel’s lack of critical  
capacity will in spite of his other virtues mean that he falls below the  
average standard for such a position. Still, I suppose members will serve  
better under him than under Radó and also they could hardly elect a foreigner  
as President of their Society.  

I do not know if any of you feel an urgent need to extend the Committee  
further at present. I do not myself, but there are several names with which  
I should agree if necessary: Van Ophuijsen, Radó, James Glover, and perhaps  
Mrs. Rivière.  

The Press campaign against us which was dying down before Christmas  
has unexpectedly taken once more an active form. The occasion for this was  
a suicide which a medical witness at the inquest ascribed to psycho-analytic 
treatment. A torrent of abuse at once poured forth. The psycho-analyst in 
question, Dr. Culpin, wrote a letter to the „Times“ and to the „British Medical  
Journal“, the official organ of the British Medical Association, stating that  
although the patient had consulted him, he had advised against a psycho-analysis,  
so that the whole statement was a lie. Both journals refused to insert the  
letter, the latter on the curious ground that it implied a reflection on another  
medical man! He succeeded in getting it inserted into the „Lancet“, but the  
lay Press has not taken cognisance of this. I am glad to say on the other side  
that there are signs of some resentment in the medical profession against a few  
physicians, notably Sir Bryan Donkin and Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, who had  
written denunciatory letters to the Press. This fact led us to address the  
 

enclosed letter to the „Times“, but it has not as yet appeared. The reference 
to the General Medical Council in the letter relates to the strong action they  
have taken in regard to medical communications to the Press. Four physicians  
have this year been expelled from the Profession on this ground, even though  
in one case the communication was a very indirect one via an ex-patient. The  
last mentioned fact has added fuel to the indignation of the members of our  
Society in regard to the public advertisement of psycho-analysis by means  
of a film being imposed on them without their consent. At the last two  
meetings resolutions of protest have been passed and the Council has been  
instructed to take various steps. So far all we have done is to write to the  
Film Censor representing that in our opinion such a film is undesirable for  
public presentation. No further steps will be taken without first communicat-  
ing with Eitingon as President of the International Association.  

No further news as yet about the Clinic. We are finding it harder  
than we expected to find suitable accommodation.  

James Glover gave in December a masterly presidential address before  
the Medical Section of the British Psychological Society. It was one of the  
most philosophically conceived and delivered addresses I have ever heard and  
I recommend a perusal of it (in the British Journal of Medical Psychology)  
to you all.  

In February I am to address the Portsmouth Division of the British  
Medical Association and in August I am to take part in the Symposium on the  
Psychology of Religion at the International Congress of Psychology in Groningen.  

I suppose you know that Jung together with Dr. Baines of London  
is in East Africa studying the natives. We shall doubtless hear more of this  
when he returns.  

VIENNA: I assume, dear Professor, that we may use your excellent Nachruf to  
Abraham for the Journal. We intend also, like the Zeitschrift, to institute  
a special memorial number. Radó has entrusted me with the task of writing a  
complete Obituary and Life History, which I am the more encouraged to under-  
take because of my close agreement with Abraham in all respects.  

Someone anonymously inserted an advertisement in the Personal Column  
of the „Times“ this week consisting of the following words: Homage to Copernic-  
us, Darwin, Freud and Truth.
 

BERLIN: I am hoping to receive from you, dear Max, the announcement for  
the Bulletin about the International Executive and am also waiting news  
about the next Committee meeting because I have already urgently to make  
various plans that depend on this.  

The New Year must be better than the Old Year in any case,  
so that mutual wishes in respect of it will surely be fulfilled.  

Yours always,  

Ernest Jones