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Prominent in this unpleasant situation is awl-eyed Sydney Greenstreet, a psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...
Diagnosis. Gathered together by Richard M. Brickner, author of Is Germany Incurable?, the 30 eminent consultants include Freudian Psychoanalyst Franz Alexander, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, Psychologist Gardner Murphy, Physician Alvan L. Barach. After long pondering, they concluded that the German people have been suffering (for more than a century) from a bad case of "psychocultural aggressiveness...
Finally, it is not true that Paul Giamis went around looking into the eyes of the lady welders telling them that he was a psychoanalyst, with an M.B. degree from the Business School, looking for introverts in the factory; no, he used a different story...
Hanged for a Thought. Viennese Dr. Reik, whom Freud considered one of his most brilliant pupils (he is now a practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan), in general agrees with Goethe, who confessed: "There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable." Psychoanalysts, Reik observes, have a saying which means the same thing: "The girl was poor, but clean; her fantasies were the reverse." At one time or another, says Reik, nearly everybody has strong motives for murder. And courts habitually and unconsciously mistake the thought for the deed; ". . . many people have in fact been hanged for a thought...
...mind is "a minutely mapped-out police district." Reik thinks that the symptoms which a detective usually takes for signs of guilt - e.g., agitation, blushing, stuttering, lying - may be nothing more than the natural reactions of an innocent man with an ugly subconscious or a sensitive endocrine system. The psychoanalyst believes that detectives generally would be more successful if they let psychology alone and concentrated on material clues...