Freud, Murder, and Fame: Lessons in Psychology’s Fascinating History

by Todd C. Riniolo

  Appendix A

  Important Dates for the Psychological Testimony

  May 31, 1924: State’s Attorney Robert Crowe calls Chicago’s leading alienists to work for the prosecution.

  June 1-2: Prosecution alienists (Drs. Patrick, Church, Singer, Krohn) observed and evaluated Leopold and Loeb before the defendants were locked in the county jail and allowed to meet with the defense attorneys.

  June 13-30: Examination of the defendants by Drs. Hulbert and Bowman, which resulted in a medical report entered into evidence during the trial.

  July 1-27: Examination of the defendants by Drs. White, Healy, Glueck, & Hamill that resulted in a joint medical report. Although this report was not entered as evidence during the trial, it provided the basis for the first three author’s trial testimony (Hamill did not testify).

  July 27: Hulbert and Bowman medical report leaked to the press.

  July 30-August 1: Hearing to determine if alienist testimony will be allowed in mitigation of the crime.

  August 1-2: Dr. William A. White testifies (alienist for the defense).

  August 4-5: Dr. William Healy testifies (alienist for the defense).

  August 5-6: Dr. Bernard Glueck testifies (alienist for the defense).

  August 7: Four college associates and a former girlfriend of Loeb testify to corroborate the testimony of the defense alienists.

  August 8-9, 11: Dr. Harold S. Hulbert testifies (alienist for the defense).

  August 12-13: Dr. Hugh Patrick testifies (alienist for the prosecution).

  August 13-14: Dr. Archibald Church testifies (alienist for the prosecution).

  August 15: Dr. Rollin T. Woodyatt testifies (alienist for the prosecution).

  August 15-16, 18: Dr. Harold D. Singer testifies (alienist for the prosecution).

  August 18-19: Dr. William O. Krohn testifies (alienist for the prosecution).

  August 22-23, 25: Lead defense attorney Clarence Darrow gives his closing argument.

  August 26-28: Lead prosecution attorney Robert E. Crowe gives his closing argument.

  September 10: Judge John R. Caverly gives his decision and rationale for the sentencing of the defendants.

  Appendix B

  Did Freud Have an Affair with His Sister-in-Law? Relevant Articles

  1. Maciejewski, F. (2006). Freud, His Wife, and His “Wife” (Jeremy Gaines, Trans., with P. J. Swales & J. Swales). American Imago, 63, 497-506.

  2. Hirschmüller, A. (2007). Evidence for a sexual relationship between Sigmund Freud and Minna Bernays? American Imago, 64, 125–129.

  3. Lothane, Z. (2007). The Sigmund Freud/Minna Bernays romance: Fact or fiction? American Imago, 64, 129–133.

  4. Silverstein, B. (2007). What happens in Maloja stays in Maloja: Inference and evidence in the “Minna wars.” American Imago, 64, 283-289.

  5. Lothane, Z. (2007). Sigmund Freud and Minna Bernays: Primal curiosity, primal scenes, primal fantasies—and prevarication. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 24, 487-495.

  6. Maciejewski, F. (2008). Minna Bernays as “Mrs. Freud”: What sort of relationship did Sigmund Freud have with his sister-in-law? American Imago, 65, 5-21.

  7. Burston, D. (2008). A very Freudian affair: Erich Fromm, Peter Swales, and the future of psychoanalytic historiography. Psychoanalysis and History, 10, 115-130.

  *Note: This list is not exhaustive, but should provide a good foundation for the controversy.

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