TY - JOUR A1 - Gitre, Edward J. K. T1 - The Great Escape: World War II, Neo-Freudianism, and the Origins of U.S. Psychocultural Analysis JF - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 47 (No. 1, Winter 2011), pp. 18-43. N2 - Psycho-cultural analysis stands as a signal accomplishment of the 1930s U.S. assimilation of European refugee-intellectuals. Scholars in the U.S. had been moving toward a kind of psycho-cultural analysis well in advance of the Great Migration – the U.S. was not an intellectual vacuum or wasteland – nevertheless, it was through their interdisciplinary collaboration, fueled by the specter of war, that these international peers stimulated one of the most wide-ranging, dynamic, and productive exchanges of ideas of the century. Through the lens of Erich Fromm's >Escape from Freedom<, this article explores psycho-culturalism's emergence in the interstices between cultures, nations, ideas, and disciplines – between Europeans and Americans, psychoanalysts and social scientists. Y1 - 2011 ER -