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Died. Dr. Otto Marburg, 74, exiled Viennese neurologist, longtime good friend of the late great Sigmund Freud; of cancer; in Manhattan. Author of several standard texts on the nervous system, Dr. Marburg had been head of the University of Vienna's Neurological Institute for 19 years when he came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1938, joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 73, dean of U.S. psychiatrists, first (1909) to translate Sigmund Freud into English; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Austrian-born Dr. Brill, until his fatal illness, remained a practicing psychoanalyst, a teacher at Columbia and N.Y.U., the leading U.S. Freudian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...scientific committee (which included Benjamin Franklin and that most gruesome of inventors, Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin) investigated Mesmer and declared that his theories were unscientific. But the experiments went on. A later Viennese physician, Sigmund Freud, experimented for a while with electricity and hypnotism, and then abandoned hypnotism for his own techniques of psychoanalysis. He reasoned that a patient under hypnosis is apt to say what the physician wants him to say instead of revealing his "unconscious" mind. Besides, Freud decided, hypnotism's effects are too ephemeral and not everybody can be hypnotized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Svengali Influence | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Manhattan, the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute unveiled a vaguely Lincolnesque figure, proudly announced that it was the one & only full-length statue of Sigmund Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Like his late, great grandfather, Artist Lucian Freud is suspicious of reticence. Grandfather Sigmund thought it frequently concealed all manner of ugly things; grandson Lucian, like Joan Miro (see above), thinks it inhibits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Be a Gentleman | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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