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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apostates. The Freudian school soon broke out in a rash of passionate factionalism equaled in intensity perhaps only by Marxism's chronic dissensions. Just as Karl Marx left his carbuncular anger to his heirs, so Freud's brilliant but obstinate, vain and hypersensitive character seems to have shaped the psychoanalytic movement. There were squabbles, rivalries, accusations. In 1910 began a series of famed apostasies of disciples who refused to accept Freud's theories unconditionally. First Adler deserted, then Stekel, and finally "Crown Prince" Carl Gustav Jung himself. Biographer Jones suggests that the dissidents were those who still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Psychiatrist | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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