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Torrey caricatures psychoanalysis in this blistering, one-sided, sometimes shrill polemic. Reviewing the evidence, he finds Freud's theory of early childhood traumas' purported effects on personality development to be devoid of scientifc support. In his view, psychoanalysis caught on in the U.S. because it fused with impulses toward sexual freedom and social reform. Bisexual Margaret Mead, who "blamed her culture for causing her to feel like a deviant," embraced Freudianism, as did her lover, Ruth Benedict, under the influence of their mentor, Franz Boas. Political liberals and Greenwich Village intellectuals used Freudian theory to further their own agendas, argues psychiatrist Torrey ( Nowhere to Go ). In his scenario, the Holocaust spurred American Jews to undergo psychoanalysis, Freud's ideas infiltrated childrearing practices through Benjamin Spock, and the Freudianization of our prison system altered the concept of criminal responsibility. Rejecting Freud, Torrey puts forward the thesis that genetic factors play a major role in shaping personality.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A Washington, D.C., psychiatrist, a specialist in schizophrenia and the author of several books on mental illness, discusses the theories of Sigmund Freud as they apply to the ongoing debate over whether people's inherited nature or their early childhood nurturing have the most effect on their adult personalities. Freud's idea that childhood experiences play a key role in personality development has now been largely discredited, Torrey argues, but it had--and continues to have--a disproportionately strong negative impact in America. Appendixes analyze Freudian influence on America's intellectual elite and summarize 26 research studies on toilet training as related to "anal" personality traits. The text also includes 75 pages of notes. Written for students of history, psychology, and psychiatry, this will find its primary audience in academic rather than public libraries.
- Marguerite Mroz, Baltimore Cty. P.L.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Torrey caricatures psychoanalysis in this blistering, one-sided, sometimes shrill polemic. Reviewing the evidence, he finds Freud's theory of early childhood traumas' purported effects on personality development to be devoid of scientifc support. In his view, psychoanalysis caught on in the U.S. because it fused with impulses toward sexual freedom and social reform. Bisexual Margaret Mead, who "blamed her culture for causing her to feel like a deviant," embraced Freudianism, as did her lover, Ruth Benedict, under the influence of their mentor, Franz Boas. Political liberals and Greenwich Village intellectuals used Freudian theory to further their own agendas, argues psychiatrist Torrey ( Nowhere to Go ). In his scenario, the Holocaust spurred American Jews to undergo psychoanalysis, Freud's ideas infiltrated childrearing practices through Benjamin Spock, and the Freudianization of our prison system altered the concept of criminal responsibility. Rejecting Freud, Torrey puts forward the thesis that genetic factors play a major role in shaping personality.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
A Washington, D.C., psychiatrist, a specialist in schizophrenia and the author of several books on mental illness, discusses the theories of Sigmund Freud as they apply to the ongoing debate over whether people's inherited nature or their early childhood nurturing have the most effect on their adult personalities. Freud's idea that childhood experiences play a key role in personality development has now been largely discredited, Torrey argues, but it had--and continues to have--a disproportionately strong negative impact in America. Appendixes analyze Freudian influence on America's intellectual elite and summarize 26 research studies on toilet training as related to "anal" personality traits. The text also includes 75 pages of notes. Written for students of history, psychology, and psychiatry, this will find its primary audience in academic rather than public libraries.
- Marguerite Mroz, Baltimore Cty. P.L.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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