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Struggle for Power. Vienna-born Psychiatrist Dreikurs, 55, and the psychologists and social workers around him are devotees of Alfred Adler (who argued that Freud overstressed the sex drive and understressed the power drive). They believe that a child's problems are seldom the result of something wrong within the child, but nearly always the result of difficulties with other members of the family. "Often," says Dr. Dreikurs, "you will find one of the most bitter struggles for power going on in the U.S. home." He believes that family problems are multiplied because this is an age of rapid...
...places, indulging his appetite for life as if "I was going to live 150 years." He speaks French, German, Italian and Spanish, has lived in Yucatan and Rome, Hong Kong and New Haven. He has sat at the feet of Gertrude Stein, stood by the sickbed of Sigmund Freud, acted as interpreter for Ortega y Gasset, hiked down the Rhone with Gene Tunney, hobnobbed with a Chicago gunman named Golfbag...
...Karen Homey, 67, German-born psychoanalyst-author (The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, Our Inner Conflicts), part founder (in 1941) and dean of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis; in Manhattan. A specialist on neuroses and how they grow ("A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization"), she disputed Freud's belief that thwarted basic drives are the cause of all mental ills, maintained that pinched emotions were more often due to contradictory values in society. She predicted that in the U.S. the conflicting goals of success-through-competition and Christian unselfishness would cause a plague of psychic quirks...
...both amused and convinced. The latest, Oliver Jensen, lets the camera make his sharpest comment for him. His picture history, The Revolt of American Women, chronicles more than half a century of rapid change which carried the female of the U.S. species "from bloomers to Bikini-from feminism to Freud." In text and captions, Author Jensen shines up an old masculine brief to new brightness, i.e., that the fight for equality began as a war between the sexes and ended up as a civil war within modern woman's psyche...
Despite the "scientific" methods of present-day novelists, Dunn agreed with Lewisohn in saying "Naturalism and Freud have provided an umbrella for pornography to stand under which it does not need...