"Sigmund Freud made his only visit to the United States in 1909, at the height of the media coverage of the Emmanuel movement.In an interview with a reporter for the "Boston Evening Transcript" on September 11, 1909, Freud admitted that he knew very little about the movement but said that "this undertaking of a few men without medical, or with very superficial medical training, seems to me at the very least of questionable good."