BRILL, ABRAHAM ARDEN

BRILL, ABRAHAM ARDEN (1874–1948), Austrian-born psychoanalyst. Brill studied with freud in Vienna, and to him belongs the main credit for introducing Freud's writings to the English-speaking world. Beginning in 1909 with a   translation of Studien ueber Hysterie (1895; Studies in Hysteria, 1936), written by Freud jointly with J. Breuer, Brill continued over the years to present a systematic translation of most of Freud's work. In 1911 he founded the New York Psychoanalytical Society, and was appointed head of the Psychiatry Clinic at Columbia University. While Brill's most significant contribution to psychoanalysis was his translation of Freud, he was a talented psychoanalytic practitioner and did some noteworthy research especially on necrophilia. He made an historic contribution to the integration of psychoanalytic concepts into psychiatry. Brill's own writings include Freud's Contribution to Psychiatry (1944) and Psychoanalysis: Its Theories and Practical Application (19223). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: G. Zilboorg, History of Medical Psychology (1941), 504–6; New York Times (March 3, 1948), 23. (Danah Zohar)