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...call Sigmund Freud a philosopher, in the true sense of the word, is a gross misnomer. A philosopher is one who examines the ultimate causes, principles, and reasons for man's existence. To construct a philosophy on Freudian principles would lead to a reductio ad absurdum to end all reductios...
...112th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, 2,200 members* and 1,000 guests packed a dozen Chicago meeting halls for five days of reports and speeches that showed a momentous 90° turn to the right. It is a turn from a narrow course, oriented on Freudian psychoanalysis (TIME, April 23), which had been followed for more than a quarter of a century, to a broader channel made by the confluence of a score of scientific disciplines and at least six major psychiatric research flows. It is a change that in a sense demotes psychoanalysis from the main...
...public milled in iconolatrous rapture around a devoutly assembled collection of Freudiana-busts, portraits, manuscripts, letters. Some 2,500 made a symbolic return to the womb when they crowded into the Morrison Hotel's sub terranean Terrace Casino to hear the high priest of the pure Freudian cult, Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, 77, eulogize the master. They gave Jones a standing ovation...
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...
Outstanding among the Freudian insights into human problems presented at last week's annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association...