Word: brill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Arden Brill of Manhattan, a Freud disciple, was scheduled to read a paper on "Abraham Lincoln as a Humorist." Lincoln, from what Dr. Brill has been able to learn out of Lincoln biographies, was a schizoidmanic. That appellation is not so horrendous as it seems in type. A schizoid is a "split personality." He has subtle conflicts among the psychic components of his personality. A manic is a moody person, one subject to fits of exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have...
Lincoln's moodiness. Dr. Brill reasons, was a result of his personality conflicts. "Two contrasting natures struggled within him, the inheritance from an untutored, roving and unstable father, who treated him brutally; and from a cheerful, fine, affectionate mother from whom Lincoln claimed to have inherited his power of analysis, his logic, his mental activity, and his ambition...
...Brill's intention to present this analysis of Lincoln to the American Psychiatric Association at Toronto last week, raised the catcalls of those who hate "debunkers"* of U. S. heroes. Dr. Edward Everett Hicks, Brooklyn psychiatrist and Son of the Revolution, cried: "It is about time the American people awoke to the fact that we have an element in this country† who seem to thrive on slime and filth, even to attacking the memory of the greatest personalities. . . . Blaspheming the memory of the immortal dead should cease...
...American Psychiatric Association did not deter Dr. Brill from his Lincoln psychoanalysis at Toronto last week. The great majority of the mental specialists at the convention treated the controversy as an amusing byplay to their serious business of telling each other their pet methods of ameliorating and preventing psychoses. And their methods were not very new. The tenor of most was that the individual must not overstrain his brain, that the more he knows about his mental workings the better for himself and for society...
...Brill, 56, was born in Austria, got his Ph.B. from New York University 30 years...