Word: vanderveldt
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Roman Catholic priest and a psychiatrist have written a book that may solve, or at least clarify, some of the tension between their callings. Dr. Robert P. Odenwald, once a Berlin psychiatrist, now directs the Child Center at Washington's Catholic University. Father James H. VanderVeldt, a Dutch Franciscan and a Catholic University professor, formerly taught psychology in Rome; in 1931 he opened the church's first experimental-psychology laboratory there. In Psychiatry and Catholicism (McGraw-Hill; $6), the authors try to explain each to the other. With a preface by Washington's Archbishop Patrick...
...Mechanisms. When it comes to strict Freudian psychiatry, Psychologist VanderVeldt and Psychiatrist Odenwald have their reservations. Their target is not Freud's medical techniques, but "the phillosophy that has gradually been tacked on" them. "Freud's most fundamental mistake was to view a person as a machine, a set of mechanisms, and to consider the psychoanalyst as a technician or mechanic who is supposed to mend these mechanisms when they function badly...
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