Johan van Ophuijsen, Padang/Indonesia 1882 - New York 1950

The career of van Ophuijsen is described in this article using material from public and privat archives. After completing his medical studies at the University of Leyden, he trained as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1913 he opened his practice in The Hague. Van Ophuijsen was the most prominent member of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society in the twenties; he was president from 1928 till 1933. He was also on the board of the International Psychoanalytic Association. In 1933 he initiated a split in the Dutch Society, resigned as its president, and founded a short-lived new society. At the end of 1935 he settled in New York, where he was an active psychoanalyst and psychiatrist until his death.