Freud's inner circle or Secret Committee consisted of Freud's most trust psychoanalyts in response to several analyists breaking with his theories including Alfred Adler in 1911, Wilhelm Stekel in 1912 and Carl Jung in 1914.

Ernest Jones recommended to Freud that he should create a group of loyal psychoanalysts.
The group consisted of Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Otto Rank, Hans Sachs, Karl Abrahm, and Max Eitingon.

Annotated bibliography

• Phyllis Grosskurth, The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1991, ISBN 0201090376 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ye1nAAAACAAJ&dq=The+Secret+Ring:+Freud%27s+Inner+Circle+and+the+Politics+of+Psychoanalysis&ei=nPNeSvvbCJviygSp97TlBQ&hl=en

The book talks about the history of Freud's secret committee, made to insure the continuation of psychoanalysis' existence.

• Brenda Webster, Vienna Triangle: A Novel, Wings Press, 2009, ISBN 0916727505 http://books.google.com/books?id=HAwMMwAACAAJ&dq=Brenda+Webster+vienna+triangle&ei=W_deStihM5P8zQSL45DUBQ

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The novel tells the story of young woman surveying the historical development of Frued's psychoanalysis.

External links

• Video with Brenda Webster http://www.goodreads.com/videos/show/2552-exposing-the-secrets-of-freud-s-inner-circle
• Book review: A tangled 'Vienna Triangle'
• Secret Committee http://www.freudfile.org/secret_committee.html