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<p>Eissler studied psychology at the [[University]] of Vienna. He took his Ph.D. in 1934 and his M.D. in 1937. After [[training]] at the Viennese Psychoanalytic Institute, he joined the Viennese Psychoanalytic [[Society]]. There he became an assistant to August Aichhorn, a pioneer in the study and [[treatment]] of adolescent delinquency, whose <i>Wayward Youth</i> became a classic [[text]]. Following the Anschluss in 1938, Eissler [[left]] for Chicago and obtained the diploma of the American Board of [[Psychiatry]]. During the Second [[World]] War, in 1943, he became a captain in the US [[Army]] Medical [[Corps]], specializing in neuro-psychiatry. That autumn, his brother Erik was killed in a [[concentration camp]], though it was only later that Eissler learned of his fate.</p>
<p>He moved to New York when the war ended, and set up in private [[practice]]. In 1949, he edited <i>Searchlights on Delinquency</i>, dedicated to his old teacher Aichhorn. In 1952, he was one of the founders of the [[Sigmund Freud]] Archives, deposited in the [[Library]] of Congress, Washington, DC, and it was as its tireless secretary that he collected so many invaluable documents about, by, or related to Freud and his associates. In this unending task he was greatly helped by [[Anna Freud]], in the context of a warm [[relationship]] of mutual esteem. He had known her from Viennese days, and she found his [[friendship]] a great comfort. He established the Anna Freud Foundation in the [[United States]], also in 1952, thus facilitating tax-free donations for the benefit of the Hampstead [[Child]] [[Therapy]] Course in [[London]], and the associated [[clinic]] she had just set up. He strongly supported the [[work]] of what quickly became the world's leading center for child [[analytic]] training and for child analytic research. Anna Freud was secure in the knowledge that the Freud Archives were in safe hands, and that Eissler's devotion to all that her [[father]] stood for was absolute. She was grateful, too, for the invaluable assistance that he gave to Ernest [[Jones]] in his extensive [[three]]-volume biography of Freud, and to the [[help]] he gave to [[James]] Strachey in preparing the [[Standard Edition|standard edition ]] of Freud's psychological works.</p>
<p>Eissler was actively and deeply concerned about the growing flood of uninformed Freud criticism and the publicity it attracted. In [[particular]], he objected to the misinterpretation of the early [[seduction]] [[theory]]. While Freud never denied that seduction in [[childhood]] had serious consequences for development, he was obliged to abandon his views of its [[role]] in the etiology of [[hysteria]]. Certainly, he would have hated the "recovered memory syndrome." All this is well known to serious
* Eissler, Kurt R. (1953). On Hamlet. Samiksa: 7: 85-202.
* ——. (1955). The psychiatrist and the dying patient. New York: International Universities Press.
* ——. (1962). [[Leonardo Da Vinci|Leonardo da Vinci]]. Psychoanalytic [[notes]] on the enigma. New York: International Universities Press.
* ——. (1963). Goethe: A psychoanalytic study 1775-1786. Two vols. Detroit:
* ——. (1968). Freud's approach to literature — explaining and [[understanding]]. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 23, 141-77.
