Word: psychoanalyst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, it is not true that Paul Giamis went around looking into the eyes of the lady welders telling them that he was a psychoanalyst, with an M.B. degree from the Business School, looking for introverts in the factory; no, he used a different story...
Nobody loves a murderer - but almost everybody loves a good murder story. To find out why people are so interested in murder, Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik, a fan himself, probed the subconscious of detectives, criminologists, judges, juries. His report, published this week (The Unknown Murderer; Prentice-Hall; $3), indicates that the line between murderers and the rest of the population is narrower than most people like to think...
Hanged for a Thought. Viennese Dr. Reik, whom Freud considered one of his most brilliant pupils (he is now a practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan), in general agrees with Goethe, who confessed: "There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable." Psychoanalysts, Reik observes, have a saying which means the same thing: "The girl was poor, but clean; her fantasies were the reverse." At one time or another, says Reik, nearly everybody has strong motives for murder. And courts habitually and unconsciously mistake the thought for the deed; ". . . many people have in fact been hanged for a thought...
...mind is "a minutely mapped-out police district." Reik thinks that the symptoms which a detective usually takes for signs of guilt - e.g., agitation, blushing, stuttering, lying - may be nothing more than the natural reactions of an innocent man with an ugly subconscious or a sensitive endocrine system. The psychoanalyst believes that detectives generally would be more successful if they let psychology alone and concentrated on material clues...
Presidential Portrait. Author Busch, who believes that the truth is generally obvious, re-examines the facts of Mr. Roosevelt's life from the viewpoint of an amateur and humane psychoanalyst. What emerges is a friendly and convincing portrait of a man whose paramount drives are a love of people and excitement, a dislike of friction and contradiction. He is "a good but not a very wise man; vain, captious, overconfident and warmhearted; no more honest than most, but friendlier than the average; courageous but at the same time . . . not totally without a certain somewhat meretricious grandeur...