"Somewhat to my surprise, I was accepted for membership in the society [the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society]. I w…"

"Because I was so eager to believe I was being helped by a talented, ethical, benevolent, and intelligent man, I sough…"

"I was thrilled. I loved the idea of opening everything up, of making old and secret documents available to anybody wh…"

"Almost all analysts in America are physicians and psychiatrists, and the medical profession is layered into a strict …"

"After returning to Berkeley, I was called by the New York Times. They had heard about the paper and the response to i…"

"Every day I get many calls, from all over the world about how awful you are. How awful this article is. How bad it al…"

"Eissler's rage knew no bounds. He did not like being harrassed by other analysts. "Just today Masud Khan called me fr…"

"But Eissler also knew how the very people making the complaints and demanding my dismissal for what was, after all, a…"

"Khan told me: "Nobody wants to say anything publicly because I know too much about all of them. If we were all to be …"

"To me, looking at other people in terms of what is wrong with them —these gradations of disturbance— was and is dista…"