Brill, Abraham Arden

Brill, Abraham Arden (1874-1948), American psychiatrist. He was born in Kańczuga, Austria (now in Poland), and graduated (1901) from New York University and from Columbia University (1903). Tests performed by Brill and the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung on patients at the Zurich (Switzerland) Psychiatric Clinic in 1907 corroborated the theories of Sigmund Freud.

One of the principal exponents of Freudian psychology who translated Freud's works, Brill introduced psychoanalysis into the United States. He taught at New York University, Columbia University, and the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and served as consulting psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital.