Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the science of psychoanalysis was developed long before the War, it was not until the hectic '20s that psychoanalysts began to open their science to large groups instead of restricting their skilful emotional probings to a few isolated individuals. In 1924, a group of socially-minded psychiatrists and psychoanalysts* formed the American Orthopsychiatric** Association, an organization whose aim was practical activity on a large scale. Members included not only psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, but teachers, social workers, and academic psychologists and sociologists as well...
...Association, more than 1,000 enthusiastic Orthopsychiatrists buzzed in the ballroom of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, discussed such varied subjects as the connection of economics and personality, hostility of Pilaga Indian children to everybody and everything, emotional qualifications of good teachers, infant pyromania, problems of old age. Cheerful social workers occupied most of the ballroom chairs, but the meeting was dominated by psychoanalysts, who gave evidence of the utility and freshness of old Sigmund Freud's ideas (see p. 41) whence they had all got theirs...
...Fred Temple Burling of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. told of a wealthy young woman who had "an extravagant love" for the tremendous department store. She insisted on working for the store, no matter how small the job, even though she might have had positions with more social prestige. Dr. Burling soon discovered that the girl was deeply attached to her father, and that "she had personified the organization and transferred much of her fixation on her father to it." The case "may sound preposterous," concluded Dr. Burling, "but it is . . . an attitude I find pretty frequently...
...business advice, ex-Social Worker Hopkins relies on President William Loren Batt of SKF Industries, Inc., Treasurer Beardsley Ruml of R. H. Macy & Co. and Chairman W. Averell Harriman of Union Pacific R. R. Dynamic Mr. Batt is an expert on scientific management; jovial Mr. Ruml used to be dean of the social sciences at the University of Chicago; swank Mr. Harriman, long interested in the New Deal, chairmans the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. Last week he flew to Des Moines from his Union Pacific's Sun Valley playground, on Harry Hopkins' advice...
...John Dos Passes. A modern U. S. tragedy, told against a big background, these novels traced the history of the Pennsylvania-Dutch Trexler family from post-Civil War days to 1929, at once took rank as one of the best chronicles of a U. S. average family and a social...