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...Wilhelm Reich, 59, once-famed follower of Sigmund Freud, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories, drew a sentence (suspended) of two years in prison from U.S. District Judge George C. Sweeney in Portland, Me. for violating an injunction by distributing "orgone energy accumulators," touted to heal burns, prevent cancer...
Although absorbed in his studies, Parsons still recognizes a tension between the individual as a social scientist and the individual as a social being. "Freud never talked psychoanalysis at the dinner table," he observes. "I disapprove of psychologists who experiment on their children." Parsons himself has three children, one son, a Harvard graduate, a daughter now at Radcliffe and another who has graduated...
Bailey's attack was directed not just against Freudian theory, but against a wide range of psychiatric practices that owe little or nothing to Freud. Psychosurgery, said Bailey, has built a sorry monument of mutilated frontal lobes. "I am frankly appalled by the [aftereffects] of lobotomy and similar operations-abusive and obscene language, uninhibited sexual drive, obnoxious mannerisms, stealing, suggestibility . . . The great neuro-surgical revolution has proved abortive; it has not emptied our state hospitals." Later, "much the same panegyrics attended the spread of the shock gospel as had attended the spread of lobotomy and -in a previous generation...
Quietly Dropped. Neurologist Bailey used his sharpest scalpels on Sometime Neurologist Freud: "His ideas were often launched with great enthusiasm, like scare headlines in a newspaper, and then quietly dropped without retraction . . . Many of Freud's psychological writings are not scientific treatises, but rather, reveries-a sort of chirographic rumination...
...with the blunt instrument of anger. British-born Novelist Geoffrey Wagner belongs to the blunt-instrument school. His mallet of malice falls on psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, its high priests, practices and pretensions. With scarcely a smidgen of saving humor, but with much righteous wrath, The Dispossessed argues that Freud, Jung, Adler, et al. are bloodletters of the psyche whose theories will eventually seem just as barbaric and outmoded as actual bloodletting does today...