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Among the foes of Freudian psychoanalysis, few are bitterer than psychologists of rival schools. A savagely outhitting example is Andrew Salter, Manhattan behaviorist and hypnotist, splenetic disciple of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Psychologist Salter paid his disrespects to the Freudians and set out his own pet creed in Conditioned Reflex Therapy (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949). Now older (37) but no mellower, Salter makes another attack in The Case Against Psychoanalysis (Holt...
From an old (1940) technical journal, Salter culls a case which he thinks may still be news for laymen: Psychologist Carney Landis, who underwent 221 hours of psychoanalysis for a Rockefeller Foundation inquiry. During it, Landis asked his analyst, "What is normality...
...Psychologist Salter, the procedure of psychoanalysis is like salting a mine. "The analyst sprinkles and buries false nuggets of Oedipus, castration (or penis envy) and bisexuality," he writes. "Then, as the patient digs (where he is directed to dig) and discovers the planted material, the analyst is convinced that he has struck pay dirt ... It is by suggestion that the patient is taught to find what he never possessed in the first place . . . Psychoanalysis can make no discoveries in the individual. It can only discover itself...
...Convicts (Stanley Kramer; Columbia), based on Psychologist Donald Powell Wilson's 1951 bestseller about his prison experiences, comes to the screen accenting the corn instead of the criminology. The book was a sprightly account of a three-year research project into the relationship between drug addiction and criminality, which Wilson conducted at Leavenworth in the early '30s for the U.S. Public Health Service. It also told of the six convicts who assisted him-and who tested him as much as he tested them...
...prison backgrounds were realistically filmed at San Quentin, but the six convicts are now jailbirds of a more flamboyant feather. Among their activities, which have been broadly colored up for movie purposes: smuggling the wife of a fellow convict into prison in a crate marked "Highly Inflammable"; saving Psychologist Wilson (John Beal) from being used by a psychopathic killer as a jailbreak shield. To these extravagant exploits the picture adds others even more farfetched: the convicts operating a bookie joint called the Psychosomatic Bookkeeping Co. in the psychologist's office; Wilson quelling a near prison riot singlehanded...