Word: brill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not enter the U.S. They were shepherded to a warehouse on Miami's Municipal Pier 2. Cots and food were donated by well-wishers. There the voyagers made themselves at home with the 29 other Estonians and one Finn who had landed from the Inanda and the Brill. For the time being, they seemed patient...
Under the watchful eye of Manhattan's Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 70, pocket-sized, learned apostle who knew Freud in 1908 in Vienna, the Freudians hold it necessary for salvation that the neurotic sinner be subjected to total immersion (perhaps 200 or more one-hour sessions) to wash him down to the childhood facts behind neuroses and persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist...
Formidable Lingo. The Freudians' Yearbook (International Universities Press; $10) contains contributions from Dr. Brill; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (the apostle to the publishers, who psychoanalyzed Marshall Field III and Ralph McAllister Ingersoll); Dr. Karl A. Menninger (head of Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic); Dr. Franz Alexander (high priest of Chicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis). Laymen who would like to take a peek inside the temple will have a hard time; the services are conducted in a formidable lingo, which puts new meanings to such familiar words as sublimation, transference and catharsis, and uses such arcane runes as abalienation...
...woman who thought anything anyone else touched was thereby polluted. For reasons only Dr. Brill can explain, the patient was temporarily better just after the execution of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for murder...
...Alexander, director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, states that while he has no specific knowledge of Lindner's work, he does not think that "in chronic cases . . . the revival of hypnosis has great advantages over the modern handling of psychotherapy." Says Manhattan's Dr. A. A. Brill: "People can become addicts of hypnosis, as of drugs...