Word: zilboorg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gregory Zilboorg, prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, complained that legal technicalities deprive psychiatrists of the opportunity to study criminals. A murderer, he said, "is treated as the private property of the State, and no gaze of free inquiry may rest on his psyche." Only a psychiatrist, he said, can solve the "nuclear problem" of impulsive murder: why a murderer kills with slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years...
...practicing psychiatrist is only too familiar with the neurotic and ostensibly normal individual who labors under the pressure of a violent but unconscious trend of self-destruction, and who either runs his automobile into a telegraph pole or lets himself be run over by an approaching car."-Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, Manhattan...
Causes. At the American Psychiatric meeting in Philadelphia last week Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, member of the brief Kerensky Government of Russia, asserted that a "death drive" exists in many "if not a majority" of normal individuals. There "must be something about those individuals (within them) that leads them to solve their problems by means of self-inflicted death?something besides despair, financial straits, failing health. . . ." The "death drive," as he interprets it, is very often the result of an unconscious desire to punish oneself severely...