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...years 1943 and 1944, combined Protestant denominations gained 4,059,127 members, according to the Yearbook of American Churches (1945), published biennially by the Federal Council of Churches...
With over half the U.S. population belonging to one church or another, the Federal Council of Churches in its 1945 Yearbook of American Churches tallied the reports of 256 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and other religious bodies, found that their membership had reached the alltime high of 72,492,669 - a jump of four million in two years...
Formidable Lingo. The Freudians' Yearbook (International Universities Press; $10) contains contributions from Dr. Brill; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (the apostle to the publishers, who psychoanalyzed Marshall Field III and Ralph McAllister Ingersoll); Dr. Karl A. Menninger (head of Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic); Dr. Franz Alexander (high priest of Chicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis). Laymen who would like to take a peek inside the temple will have a hard time; the services are conducted in a formidable lingo, which puts new meanings to such familiar words as sublimation, transference and catharsis, and uses such arcane runes as abalienation...
Love & Hate. The Yearbook recites a litany familiar to devout Freudians-love that is really hate and submissiveness that is aggression, as well as much stuff that anybody's grandmother would have dismissed as just a dirty thought. But in the case histories, new & old, translated for the most part out of the Freudian pig-Latin into something resembling the vulgar tongue, the Freudians talk so that laymen can usually understand their sex theory. Examples...
...Until World War I, a yearbook of psychoanalysis used to be published in Vienna...