 He suffers … because he clings to [the past], wants to cling to it, in order to protect himself from experience ["Erlebnis"], the emotional surrender to the present" (Rank, 1929–31, p. 27).In France and later in America, Rank enjoyed great success as a therapist and writer from 1926 to 1939.Traveling frequently between France and America, Rank lectured at universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and University of Pennsylvania on relational, experiential and "here-and-now" psychotherapy, art, the creative will, and "neurosis as a failure in creativity" (Rank, 1996).