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Although hesitant about passing judgment on Germany Goldstein said that there was no doubt that the uncertainties of present day life in Europe contributed a great deal to the increase in psychopathic cases, and that the relation between Der Fuehrer and the masses was a psychological rather than a political phenomenon. Compared with the tenseness of life in Europe American life seems quite placid...
Before coming to America five years ago, Goldstein was mainly concerned with German soldiers who had received brain injuries during the World War. Through his work in brain surgery and neurology he entered into the field of psychology...
Questioned on the problem of propaganda, Goldstein felt that modern advertising had by playing on the fears and hopes of the buying public increased the number of hypochondriacs, and that it was up to education to develop a resistance to propaganda...
Comparing American to German students, Goldstein was much impressed by the material comfort and beautiful campuses of American Universities and the uninhibited eagerness of the American student in class discussions. German students, he continued, have greater freedom in electing courses and do not have so many examinations...
...answer to a question on the nature of psychology Goldstein stated that it was coming into its own as a science but it would never be a science in the same sense that physics is; for behaviorism is a special part of psychology...