[From psychotherapy to psychoanalysis: Max Levy-Suhl (1876-1947)].

From psychotherapy to psychoanalysis: Max Levy-Suhl (1876-1947). Levy-Suhl can be considered one of the great practising psychotherapists in early 20th century Berlin. He was active in various fields, including ophthalmology, forensic adolescent psychiatry and hypnosis.

[Karl Landauer's fate after the German occupation of the Netherlands].

This paper documents Landauer's hesitation, prior to May 1940 when the Germans invaded the country, whether to emigrate a second time, and it reconstructs how he lost his positions as training analyst and psychoanalytic teacher after falling in love with a patient and starting an intimate relationship with her.

[August Watermann (1890-1944)].

Watermann was a Jewish psychoanalyst in Hamburg who fled from Nazi Germany in 1933. He settled in The Netherlands as a practicing psychiatrist/psychoanalyst, became a member of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society after some complications and married a Dutch woman. After May 1940, the German occupation of Holland made his life very difficult, finally impossible.

[Two Dutch sisters in analysis with Freud].

The author provides persuasive or at least plausible data for the identity of two patients recorded by Freud in his working season of 1910/11. They were two sisters, living in The Hague/Leiden, who came from a rich banker's family, the van der Lindens. Whereas the treatment does not seem to have led to any decisive improvement for the older of the two, it may have encouraged the younger sister to seek divorce.

[Johan van Ophuijsen, Padang/Indonesia 1882 - New York 1950].

The career of van Ophuijsen is described in this article using material from public and privat archives. After completing his medical studies at the University of Leyden, he trained as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1913 he opened his practice in The Hague.