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...peers," are solidly rooted in Freud's concepts. In nursery schools, self-expression owes almost all to Freud. Picking a vocation or choosing a college course, countless U.S. youths, submit themselves to aptitude tests and other psychological gimmicks based on Freudian interpretation of personality structure; e.g., the Rorschach inkblot tests may reveal hidden hostilities which would make a career as a sales man unprofitable, or dependency yearnings which would bar promotion as a foreman or executive. A.firm of consultants is doing big business providing psychologists to industry. Its biggest client: Chicago's case-hardened Inland Steel Co., which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Explorer | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...minute "Visual Impression Test," administered to Freshman volunteers in Memorial Hall, was nevertheless a dubious pleasure for meet of them. The majority handed in their papers with a growing feeling that they had just been unwittingly psychoanalyzed, as every question was of the familiar inkblot and what-does-this-picture-mean-to-you type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tested on Inkblots and Pictures, '51 Guinea Pigs Make No Mistakes, but Get No Grades | 12/17/1947 | See Source »

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