Medicine: The True Freudians

Psychoanalysis, which is a religion to its followers, has its own high church, and an elaborate collection of schismatics and nonconformists. The simon-pure fundamentalists are the anointed followers of the late Dr. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis. Most of this tight group of disciples are in the U.S. Out last week was their first Year book of Psychoanalysis, which reverently reiterated their creed that in the beginning was sex, is now, and ever shall be.*

Under the watchful eye of Manhattan's Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 70, pocket-sized, learned apostle who knew Freud in 1908 in Vienna, the Freudians hold it necessary for...

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