The New York herald., 1921-05-23

Conversely they know that nothing but evil
can result from hauling up and constantly
inspecting these things. Neither men nor
women can do it safely.
These faculties human qualities that
must be curbed, and the Freudians will have
TO be warned that they are going too far. I
wish to be quoted as saying just that and
adding that in my belief the harm these
people doing will be recognized and they
will be stopped.
Tells of Harmful Influence
On Minds and Health of Girls
Think of what is going on every day.
They take young person, say young girl
of 16 or under, and they teach her to in
vestigate her dreams. the dreams of her
earlier years. of her cropping childhood. in
order that she may discover, or think she
discovers. indications that they contained a
vague sexual feeling tendency. They go
further and persuade her, as 1t is in most
cases easy enough to do-but the pity of
it!-that these dreams will have increas-
ing and debasing influence on her life. What
can these pseudo-scientific deductions do but
harm? If the poor child be not hysterical
before will she not inevitably become so?
Instances can be cited-many have oc-
Cured in my own practice-of perfectly in
nocent young women who have been made
only dimly comprehend and yet by this
course are fixed in their mind This is to
do incalculable harm.
"A psychoanalyst has recently stated that
every person who attempts TO heal mental
disease should himself be analyzed before
being permitted to practise / fully agree
with him. 1t is the very thing necessary in
the beginning of any effort to control this
dangerous thing. AS it stands, any person
q n thaif 1raa nd
prescribe palliatives or what not
"A valiant effort should be made, and al
once, to stop the increase of the psyche
analysts, many of whom are now exploit
ing the public in the worst possible way.
"As for the Freudian creed itself, repeat
that ! oppose it with all my force believing
| do that what is naturally hidden i'm o
subconscious state, and intended to remain
there. should be permitted to stay there.
Should there be anything needed for our
development in that subconscousness de-
pend upon II that Nature will bring it forth
and make it a part of conscious lives.
But no good Is to he gained by unearth-
ing the facts and fancies OF a subconscious
state and giving undue Importance to them.
Dreams are dreams. The whole trend OF n
normal education is 10 accept the facts OF
our waking life and where these facts lead
through environment to evil they should
themselves be changed"
Other neurologists felt as strongly on the
so-called soul analysis of the dead and gone
Margaret Fuller. as Or. Sachs but their
attention had not been called to the book
In which this Is put out
DR.. Charles l.. Dana. called the dean of
the neurologists, is among those who have
previously given THE New YORK HERALD his
opinion Of the psychoanalytica school and
the new book as an outcropping of that
school did not tempt him to repeat these
opinions. DIR. Frederick Peterson although
he has more recently than his colleagues
given to this newspaper his theory or
dreams, was willing to add to II with the
Margaret Fuller biography as his starting
point.
The perpetrator OF this assault on the
memory of n distinguished woman has fol-
lowed the example OF her master, Sgmund
Freud. who wrote and published a book ex
planning to his satisfaction the character OF
Leonardo da Vinci" said DR.. Peterson, Gen
orally such character readings are valueless
and rs one reads the analyses made by
psychoanalysts whether of the dead or the
living, one will find a complete revelation
there of the type OF mind OF the analyst
himself. his intelligence, his logic, his sym
bolsm, in word, his character; indeed one
viii learn much more OF him In this way
than one will of the unfortunate type the
analyst thinks he Is studying.
Prof. Beuler of Zurich has studied the
Freud method more scientifically and deeply
than any other alienist and psychologist and
his conclusion is 'nicht betciesen,' not
proven. Freudism like thousand new So
called discoveries of remedial agencies that
have taken root for a time in human credu-
llty win, like these. die away
"All Of us, including physicians. and per-
haps beginning with physicians. are eager
to believe in any new hope Of help held out
to us for the healing OF the sick. The same
psychologist factors are at work in doctors
as in the general public for the creation OF
faith In the new drug or the new method
Often we do not know enough about either
10 be sufficiently critical. and this ignorance
Of the faculty prepares the ground for the
now belief the new conviction. IL is thus