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...many of you may have already discovered for yourselves, co-Authors Ernest Havemann and Dr. Patricia Salter West (a ca-CHART)8 reer woman-housewife) recognized the possibility that marriage might be a matter of choice when they wrote: "It may be that the kind of woman who goes to college, and stays there until she gets her degree, is simply by nature the self-sufficient type who does not regard marriage as woman's ultimate destiny-and will not embark upon it except under the most promising circumstances...
...Salter points jeeringly at Freud's own followers who, he says, "have become filled with doubts and are constantly reinterpreting and rewriting the Master's gospel. There are the Jungians and the Adlerians, the Stekelites and the Reichians, the Horneyites and the Menningerites, and the so-called Washington and Chicago Schools. Great indeed is the confusion of tongues...
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...
...Modern psychology," Salter goes on, "has shown Freud's map of the mind to be as inaccurate and wildly fanciful as the pre-Columbian maps of the New World." And with approval he quotes Sociologist Pitirim Sorokin: "What is sound in Freudianism is very old; what is new, very doubtful...