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Psychiatry is as sharply split in its views on the causes and treatment of schizophrenia as schizophrenics are supposed to be split in their personalities. The prevailing view is still that of Freud: that schizophrenia is the full flowering of a maladjustment to other people that is seeded in childhood; to cure it, the victim must be helped to establish better relationships. At the opposite end of the psychiatric spectrum are those who hold that schizophrenia is a biochemical abnormality; if the abnormality could be identified, the victim might be cured by correcting the body's chemistry...
...Thomas Woodrow Wilson as a Messianic but effeminate zealot hovering on the brink of insanity. It is all the more remarkable because it is not the work of some pop-psych practitioner but bears the name of the founder of psychoanalysis himself. On this showing, if not on others, Freud puts psychoanalysis in the category of myth and poetry rather than that of scientific examination...
When Bullitt confided his purpose to his friend Sigmund Freud, the Viennese psychiatrist instantly fell in with the idea. Indeed, he took charge: he wanted to set a hand to the chapter about Wilson. In the ensuing collaboration, the chapter became the book. Wilson had fascinated Freud since his discov ery that they were born in the same year-1856-and, more particularly, he blamed Wilson because his personal estate of $30,000 had dwindled away into nothing during the inflationary postwar period. Freud candidly confesses his bias in this book: "The figure of the American President, as it rose...
This relationship cast Wilson's father as God, and demanded that the son view himself as Christ, the son of God -or so say Freud and Bullitt. At the same time, this too-deep devotion to his father caused young Tommy Wilson to suppress the aggressive instincts that a growing boy normally directs against his male parent. The authors state flatly that Wilson "never had a fist fight in his life" and did not participate in sports or games of any kind, although they contradict themselves later. Bullitt and Freud insist that Wilson grew up virtually shorn...
...first wife, Wilson referred to "the flutter and restlessness" of his spirits. By using the word "flutter," Wilson betrayed a quality "so feminine in its connotations that one should hesitate to employ it to describe a man." When Wilson ascribed to Premier Clemenceau "a kind of feminine mind," Freud-Bullitt call this "clearly an attempt to persuade himself that his own behavior was not feminine by transferring his own attitude to Clemenceau...