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Word: szondi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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...inherits the color of his eyes, say scientists, through the little heredity-carriers called genes. Leopold Szondi, a lively 65-year-old Hungarian psychiatrist, goes much farther than that. He believes that the genes also control the kind of subconscious mind a person has, and what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop, Look & Love | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...important genes, Szondi says, determine people's lives & loves. In the field of romance, like attracts like-to disaster. Lovers with bad mental and emotional characteristics, caused by "sick" genes, should avoid marrying people with the same type of bad genes. An apparently healthy man with a schizophrenic grandmother, Szondi claims, is likely to fall in love with a girl whose ancestors suffered from the same kind of insanity. Their children, of course, would inherit a double dose of gene-damnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop, Look & Love | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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