Émigré analysts and ethnologists formed a distinct interdisciplinary outsider circle in New York.

Evidence

From the middle of the 1930s onwards, Fromm, Karen Horneyanother émigré German psychoanalystand the American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, who tended towards behaviourism, formed a group of outsiders among the New York psychoanalysts. They were concerned with combining psychiatry and psychoanalysis with sociology and ethnology; and ethnologists such as Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict joined them. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the book’s broader account of how the Institute’s members built cross-disciplinary networks in American exile — figures like Sapir and Benedict anchor the culture-and-personality connection. — connects to: Ethnographic research positions the researcher as simultaneously insider and outsider to the community studied. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 55
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ethnographic research positions the researcher as simultaneously insider and outsider to the community studied. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 55