The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-28
FIGHT AGAINST FEARS
A Book Review by
JEROME G. LOCKE

FIGHT AGAINST FEARS by Luc.
Freeman Grown Publisher, Inc.
419 Fourth Ave-, New York City, i
an odd and remarkable book in sew
eral respects. The authoress, highl!
talented news reporter on the New
York Times was so beset by preju
dices, fears and hates that she hat
no real friends and despised herself
The emotional instability, of which
she was a victim, furnished basis
for about every kind of physical i'll
ness by which high strung person
can be afflicted.
Almost continuously for many
years she was under medical treat
ment of many kinds. All of it brought
not one whit of relief. At age twenty
nine she committed herself to the
care of skillful psychoanalyst. After
more than four years of such con-
sultation, three hourly lessons per
week at SIS per lesson, Lucy Free
man was a completely transformed
woman. She regained full physical
health, conquered most Of her Vio-
lent prejudices, passions, hates, fears
and Anglers and became a calm minded
woman who made and kept friends,
learned to love and be loved and final
~ gained sufficient vision to believe
that our presently strife torn world
will finally emerge with higher and
finer type of civilization than it has
yet enjoyed. This transformation
brought not only health but happi-
ness.
The book is the story of Lucy Free
mans life and of a heroic struggle
to conquer herself. Despite the alb
solute candor with which she has
laid bare to public gaze all the neu-
rotic, insane and criminal tenden-
cies that afflicted her it has been
published over the well known name
that is her byline for New York |
Times news stories. The part the
psychoanalyst played in the picture
sounds simple but must have required |
infinite patience and tact. He some |
how planted into an unreceptive head |
the idea that its owner was the vic
tim of many kinds of violent, even
vicious emotions and that these were /
being dredged up from a sub-con-
scious mind that had been badly |
trained by hundreds of undesirable
and sometimes unnecessary expert
ences in the past. His remedy was
20 induce the victim to fight down
,hese emotions and substitute, as a
guide to her sayings and conduct,
'ational conscious thought. The psy-
won, but a little of his
background is required if
We are to understand why and how.
hi
en- of prominent and prosperous
Jew York attorney. Like the father
nd mother before her, she was
aised with silver spoon in her
Mouth. A luxurious apartment in
he city, summer home in the coun- ,
ry, vacation trips to Florida, pri-
ate tutors, her own auto at age six
cen, all the clothes and trappings
he cared to accumulate and finally I
radiation from an exclusive girls
ollege. /
Following graduation she went di- (
ectly into newspaper work. First
n minor assignment wherever OBJ
then few months as a !
ritter for a weekly paper and final
:, in 1911, as a general news report q
: for the New York Times. Here she +
ade good and in couple of years a
as being sent on important special t
such as conventions and +
sasters, to all parts of the United ;,
5ates. Despite the handicaps of much =
mess, stiff competition and a gen !,
al prejudice against lady reporters q
e has won several prizes for out a
anding achievements in the news p
lper field. e
The book is enlightening and rich in d
portorial detail. 1t furnishes many =,
les as to why the authoress had to -
delivered from warping hates, o.
ars and spells of anger. Her par
is were lavish with money but w
idance was strict. Their social sta bl
N had to be maintained at any al
st and the command the children L.
,st often heard was "You can't -. .I
that" There was overmuch family th
ction and jealousy among members.
the writer herself records: ~
Gas child | was not capable Of v
anyone else. | could not Mr.
'e for people because l was afraid
trust them. In turn I could not