Evening star., 1938-07-24
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Psychiatrist Says II Is
Stem From Childhood
Experiences.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A Washington psychiatrist has con-
cluded that often the antagonisms Of
Government ofiicials and business
leaders stem from childhood expert
ences.
His findings may cast new light on
the frequent failure Of industrialists
and public servants to get together"
DR.. Ernest e. Hadley, who has
helped both Government men and
business executives to solve their per-
sonal problems, found that youthful
resentment against unwarranted disci-
pline paved the way for "the transfer
of.blame for personal defections.
He gained the impression from clin-
ical work that the unrecognized an
tagonisms toward governmental heads
met with in business men sprang
largely from the unconscious hatred
OF the father: whereas, the hostility
Of governmental heads toward busi-
ness sprang more clearly from long
inhibited hatred of the mother"
Persons may act In such q way as
to block cooperation, he indicated,
even when they believe they are try
ing to get along" with others.
Discusses Problems in Article.
Dr. Hadley discussed the problems of
"unrecognized antagonisms in business
enterprise" in the first issue of Psy-
chiatry, new quarterly published
by the William Alanson White Foun-
dation and devoted to the problems
of relations between people.
Reviewing the lives Of those he had
aided, DR.. Hadley discovered that
often the child felt intense hatred for
the Furnishing parent. Because he
feared to express his hate. the child
buried it so deeply in his memory
that he became unaware of it.
Later, the hatred cropped out, un-
known to the individual, in his atti-
tudes toward others he met in the
workaday world
The habit OF transferring blame for
ones faults. DR.. Hadley said, lis fairly
prevalent, and easily gathers mo-
mentum upon the wings Of gossip to
the serious disruption Of national
confidence.
This reaction in times OF stress is
easily exploited by propagandists," ne
added.
Business itself, on whose shoulders
the fate Of the world depends, should
carefully avoid all transfer of -blam me.
This does not invslidate the right Of
business to defend itself from unjusti-
fable attacks"
Trait Exists in Critics.
The same kind Of "unrecognized an
tagonisms' exist in people who at
tack business, he continued
There are deplorable number Of
persons who transfer the blame for
their own inadequacies on to business.
The type of persons .. who make
tenuous maladaptations are we'll
known for their actions of antagon-
ism against business or against those
who have"
DR.. Hadley added that he had found
in "the political reformer type, the
one who cants repeatedly at business, u
unconscious drives both to revenge the
thwarting of childhood desires and to
regain "the vague and illusory salts
factions" Of the infant cared for by
its mother.
The agitator, the propagandist and
the political spellbinder, who FIRE
quently. and quite unconsciously
bring trouble or disaster upon those
whom he purports to help" often Is
following out a childhood pattern OF
sturdy contempt" for both parents
the doctor said.
This leads to playing of the mother
against the father. and vice versa, fol
his own personal advantage" Later
the grown man tries to follow the
same tactics in dealing with others.