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...capacity to make good use of them. In their technical refinement, our machines have often approached perfection; but no similar development has been visible in the education of men. On the contrary: the typical human product of our time, especially among the leaders of our society, is either a paranoid personality, warped by delusions of grandeur and an insatiable lust for power, or a split personality, in which the intellectual, the emotional and the practical sides are divided into watertight compartments. The first type tends to be destructive; the second, trivial or impotent...
...material with which to form a good and peaceable society. "The trouble is that it is too raw," he added. The severity of the Czarist-regime forced of liquidation of the powerful elements of pre-Communist Russia he asserted. The result of this process has been the rise of "paranoid and sadistic dictators who have created a despotism far worse than was that of the Czars--more bloody and even less efficient...
...trend. Hess's profound devotion to Hitler over so many years was semi-pathologic and he may have been suffering from a homosexual panic when he ran away. He may be a pathologic person but not necessarily crazy." > Dr. Leo Alexander of Boston: "Hess may be a constitutionally paranoid personality who may be expected under stress . . . to break down into full-fledged paranoia." > Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman, head of Psychiatric Division of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital: "I'm not a good enough psychiatrist to speculate a diagnosis on a patient in Scotland...
...three children of her own, and Dr. Reginald Spencer Lourie declared that, on the contrary, these wild yarns are often good for unhappy children-"an inexpensive form of therapy." Dr. Bender told of a little girl whose father was a bootlegger, gambler and eventual suicide, whose mother was a paranoid cancer sufferer. Obsessed by the need of escape, the girl identified herself with one of the Hawk Man's constantly rescued women. A boy who had been ignored all his life by an unstable mother and an alcoholic father believed that he was in constant danger, that he would...
...There is ... a probable hysterical identification in subconscious fantasy with Frederick the Great and . . . Napoleon, which makes him appear, judged by modern standards, as an atavistic monster. . . . [He also has] Messianic feelings. This is a further development of his paranoid tendency, making his followers paranoid and producing collective paranoia. ... In Freud's view all paranoiacs were homosexual, but in Herr Hitler's case this, in recent years, apparently has been repressed, and today all manifestation of love is self-love and love of Germany...