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...last week suggested that the Vatican's unofficial truce with psychoanalysis might be over. Writing for the Bulletin of the Roman Clergy, Monsignor Pericle Felici, an official of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments, loudly attacked "the absurdity of psychoanalysis." He stated flatly that anyone who adopts the Freudian method is risking mortal...
...Monsignor Felici's words. He wrote, they protested, as an individual; signed articles in the Bulletin, a monthly magazine for clergy of the Rome diocese, do not represent official church opinion, much less dogma. Monsignor Felici corroborated them: "It was an effort at making a personal judgment on Freudian psychology...
...spokesman added the official Roman Catholic caution on psychoanalysis: only "its excesses and deformations" must be avoided. These specifically include the Freudian's habit of labeling all human virtues "sublimated sexual emotions" (Monsignor Felici, in his article, had noted the same evil). Concluded the Vatican: "Should psychoanalytic treatment be judged harmful to the spiritual health of the faithful, the church would not hesitate to take adequate steps to brand it as such. Nothing, so far, indicates that such steps are about to be taken...
Among the foes of Freudian psychoanalysis, few are bitterer than psychologists of rival schools. A savagely outhitting example is Andrew Salter, Manhattan behaviorist and hypnotist, splenetic disciple of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Psychologist Salter paid his disrespects to the Freudians and set out his own pet creed in Conditioned Reflex Therapy (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949). Now older (37) but no mellower, Salter makes another attack in The Case Against Psychoanalysis (Holt...
...were an animal made only for this world. It takes eternity to make a man despair. ¶ Paraphrasing the story of the Pharisee (who was a very nice man), we can imagine him praying in the front of the temple as follows: "I thank Thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me that there is no such thing as guilt, that sin is a myth, and that Thou, O Father, art only a projection of my father complex ... I contribute 10 per cent of my income to the Society for the Elimination of Religious Superstitions, and I diet...