Word: lindner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that money into a new $2.2 million Chicago branch which he sold to Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and leased back. Another $800,000 was spent transforming Boston's historic old Natural History Museum into another Bonwit Teller branch. In Cleveland, he has leased a downtown building (Lindner Coy's) for a new store next year, bought a site in mushrooming Houston to build another $1.3 million store. In between times, he leased three small Manhattan stores and opened his new subsidiary: Anson-Jones Co. It sells only women's dresses, at one price...
...thirty-second session, the analyst had gathered that: 1) Harold's eye trouble began before the age of two ; 2 ) his difficulties seemed to have their roots in relations between his mother (whom he loved) and his father (whom he hated). Then Lindner ran into a stone wall of resistance; there were hints of a terrible experience which the boy could not remember...
...Lindner thereupon placed Harold in a deep hypnotic trance, suggested his baby hood : "You are getting smaller and younger. ... You are very small now, a very small baby ... in the cradle. . . . Why did you first start to blink your eyes?" Harold then related, in sharp detail, two frightening experiences apparently at the age of about six or eight months: 1) sitting in his mother's lap at the movies, he was terrified by a picture of a "wolf" (probably Rin-Tin-Tin, says Lindner); 2) next morning, waking early in his cradle, he saw that his father, looking wolfish...
Light on Lights. Before taking Harold out of his trance, Lindner told him to forget what he had said. Primed with leading questions, Lindner had little difficulty getting the same story from Harold at a later, conscious session. Eventually analyst and patient concluded that Harold's psychosis was rooted in Oedipean jealousy of his father, that his blinking sprang from his association of the theater's bright lights with the whole shocking experience. Lindner reports that the hypnoanalysis cured Harold's blinking...
Orthodox Freudians take issue with Lindner's basic method. Famed Dr. Franz Alexander, director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, states that while he has no specific knowledge of Lindner's work, he does not think that "in chronic cases . . . the revival of hypnosis has great advantages over the modern handling of psychotherapy." Says Manhattan's Dr. A. A. Brill: "People can become addicts of hypnosis, as of drugs...